Revit 6.1 Dirt Cheap

[Scott Hopkins]

http://www.academicsuperstore.com/market/marketdisp.html?PartNo=712619

What an incredible price! Now if I could just dig up my old student ID.
Let’s see, I think it is out in the garage in a box with my 8-track tapes.

[aggockel50321]

Mike G. ought to look at this. I thought he said his student versions were set one or two releases back...

[Dean Camlin]

I'm going to announce it to my class.

[Scott D Davis]

I'm going to have my high school son buy a copy....oh wait "Not to be used for commercial purposes..." darn. :-|

Does this mean that if I was just modeling some stuff at home, say a chair, and then use that chair in the future in a project that I'm doing for profit, that I violate the agreement? What if a student models some new windows in it, and then shares them throught the Revit AUGI site. Are we not able to use them in projects for profit?

Kind of a gray area...

[FK]

I am not a lawyer, nor an Autodesk spokesperson, but my personal guess is that it would be OK for student-created content to go into public domain as long as the student (or student's parent :) ) is not deriving commercial profit. The content can be used for profit only with a commercially licensed copy anyway.

[Phillip Miller]

I'm not sure on this one but ADT and AutoCAD puts a plot banner on anything created in the Student versions, and if you use this block in a comercial version it will populate to this. Maybe Revit does this as well?

[mlgatzke]

Mike G. ought to look at this. I thought he said his student versions were set one or two releases back...

I knew about the 6.1 Student Version, but I don't know if it's "watermarked" or not.

The "previous release" software I was talking about is the ACES licensed software we have installed on our lab computers. The current ACES licensed release is 5.1. However, there's supposed to be a new Fulfillment shipment released this month that contains 6.1 and AutoCAD 2005.

I'm currently putting a proposal together to double-contract as an educational institution AND an Autodesk Training Center. This will give us the benefits of an educational institution AND the rapid shipment of new software releases. The problem is that it'll cost us $5000US more each year.