Please install these software tools on your personal computer, so you can work on the class modules and design projects from anywhere.
Follow these steps to set up your computer to use all the software tools that we’ll be using in class.
Sign Up for an Autodesk ID
- If you already have a student Autodesk ID from another class, you’re all set.
- If you haven’t created a student Autodesk ID (or if you’re currently using one that created for your workplace), sign up for a new student Autodesk ID by following these steps:
- Go to the Autodesk Education Community Website
- Scroll down to the Confirm your eligibility to access the Autodesk Education plan section of the page.
- Click the Create an Autodesk Account link.
- Complete and submit the registration form.
- Be sure to check your email for a message from Autodesk and click the confirmation link to finish activating your new Autodesk ID by providing information about the school you attend.
- Notes about Autodesk IDs
- Most students use their school email address as their Autodesk ID.
- If you already have a student Autodesk ID from another school, you can continue to use it or sign up for a new one.
- You can create as many Autodesk IDs as you like -- but if you use an email address that is not recognized as being from an educational institution, Autodesk may ask you to provide additional documentation of your student students (for example, an image of your student ID) to confirm that you are eligible for their free education offerings.
- If you need to create a second Autodesk ID, you can create an alias to your Stanford email address and then use this alias to create another Autodesk ID.
Setting Up Your Computer to Run Windows Software
What type of computer are you setting up?
Alternatives to Installing Windows on Your Computer
If you cannot set up your computer to run Windows software, you can:
Install Revit 2024 and the Content Library
- Go to the Windows OS environment on your computer:
- On your Windows computer
- In Bootcamp
- Or in your Parallels virtual environment
- Use your web browser (Chrome is preferred) to go to the Students section of Autodesk Education Community website and click the Get Products button:
- Choose the Revit tile, then click:
- Get Started (if you haven't already signed in)
- Get Product (if you are signed in)
- Select Windows 2024 as the version to be installed.
- Click the INSTALL button
- IMPORTANT: If you see a DOWNLOAD button (instead of INSTALL), the Autodesk website has detected that you cannot install the software directly because you are in the wrong environment. This typically happens when you try to install Windows software from the Mac environment.
- If this happens, it's typically better to switch to the Windows environment and let the Autodesk installer do all the work.
- If you choose to Download the files to the Mac environment, you'll need to copy them over to the Windows file system, and do a manual install there by following these steps:
- When you open the Autodesk software for the first time, you will be prompted to login using your Autodesk ID to confirm your eligibility to use the software.
Revit 2021 and newer releases DO NOT install the Autodesk Sample Content Libraries as part of the default installation, so you need to install the sample Revit families separately. You can do that two ways:
- Open Revit Application.
- Switch to the Insert tab in the ribbon, and open the Load Autodesk Family tool (Insert > Load from Library > Load Autodesk Family).
- Browse or search for the Revit Family that you’d like to load, then click the Load button.
- For Revit 2024, download the US English Content for Revit 2024 (or content for the language you prefer) using this link:
- Run the RVTCPENU.exe (or app with a similar name for the language you selected), and accept the default choices to install the Autodesk Content Library in your Revit application.
After installing the Revit application, be sure to run the Autodesk Desktop App from the Autodesk folder in your Start menu to install the latest product updates.
- Close the Revit application.
- Open the Autodesk Access app for the Windows Start menu or the taskbar icon.
- Login using your Autodesk ID.
- Go to the Updates tab and click ALL of the Update buttons to install ALL of the Revit-related product updates and Revit extensions.
Install Rhino 8 for Windows or Mac
- If you already have Rhino 7 installed on your computer, you’re all set. There’s no need to upgrade to a newer version.
- If not, download and install the latest version of Rhino 8 for Windows - One-Time Evaluation from this site:
- https://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino-for-windows/evaluation
- This Evaluation Version will be valid for 90 days.
- Download and install the latest version of Rhino 8 for Mac - One-Time Evaluation from this site:
- https://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino-for-mac/evaluation
- This Evaluation Version will be valid for 90 days.
Contact Glenn (glkatz@stanford.edu) to request being added to our shared pool of Rhino licenses for class use.