Autodesk Revit 🔵 🟣

• 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

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• Scroll down to the Request or Renew Access section of the page.
• Click the Select Product button.
• Scroll down the list of products available to the Revit tile, then click the Select button.
• Click the Select button in the Student tile to request a student subscription plan.
• 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.

• Go to the operating system required by the software you will be installing.
• For Mac software, go to the Mac OS.
• For Window software, go to Windows OS
• On your Mac 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:

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• Choose the Revit tile, then click Select:

• Click the Login link to login to your Autodesk Account and access your student subscription.
• Click the Access Products button.

• Scroll down the list of products to the Revit tile.
• Select 2026 and Win 64 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:
❗Downloaded the Windows Installation Files to Your Mac Hard Disk

• 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.

If your Mac has less than 45 GB of free space available on the internal disk, you can setup and run Parallels from an external hard disk.

You'll need to have this external hard disk attached to your Mac while running the Windows-based software, but you can disconnect it when not using Windows.

The key to using this strategy successfully is to get the fastest external drive that you can reasonably afford. Since you'll be accessing the files on this external drive continuously while using Windows, the speed of the drive has a very big impact on the performance of the Windows software.

Here's a link to some USB-C external SSD (solid state) drives on Amazon.

Amazon.com : usb c ssd external hard drive

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• The key is look for a speedy drive (one that says "up to 1050 MB/s" or "USB 3.2 Gen 2" or faster).
• The size of the drive is up to you and your budget. I'd recommend a 500GB or 1 TB drive (available for around $69) or larger.