Products licensed through the Autodesk for Education program are available for direct download from the manufacturer’s website. If you need to use Autodesk software before our contract for non-instructional usage is in place, please contact CIT. If you have an immediate need to use Autodesk software before then, please contact CIT.Ĭornell faculty, instructors, and currently-registered Cornell students can register with the vendor to obtain free educational licensing for nearly any Autodesk product:Īutodesk Free Educational Software (link goes to Autodesk) Other non-instructional use will require paid licensing once our contract is finalized. Non-instructional staff who are providing support for educational, instructional, and noncommercial research use of Autodesk software can be considered instructional users under the “Autodesk for Education” program. Students, faculty, and any other Cornell instructor can use Autodesk software on their Cornell-owned or personally-owned computers through Autodesk Educational Licensing. CIT will make details about and pricing for non-instructional Autodesk licensing available once an agreement has been reached.
CIT is currently negotiating a new paid licensing agreement for Cornell facilities, administrative, and commercial research use.
Students, instructors, researchers, and their IT support staff can obtain free educational licensing directly from Autodesk.Īutodesk is no longer extending the Autodesk for Education Program for Cornell personnel who are not educational or instructional users.
This program offers nearly all of Autodesk’s software products for free when used for education, instruction, and noncommercial academic research. “Autodesk for Education” is Autodesk’s own educational licensing program, open to students and instructors at accredited secondary and post-secondary schools in North America and many countries across the world. Autodesk is a provider of 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software.