antonio_frias Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 A coupel of days ago I was discussing REVIT with a friend of mine who works in the Architectural Vizualisation field. The only program he uses is MAYA. He explained that when he started out, the only available program, free of use to learn to work on was MAYA (student learning edition). I think that there are many MAYA users out there with the same experience. Why haven't other companies like AUTODESK adopted the same method for their programs like REVIT. It's impossible to learn a new program with their 30 day trial CD's. Anybody out there have an opinion about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Autodesk has Student versions of their software that you can purchase at a greatly reduced price. The catch is that you have to be a student, complete with student ID and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cakewalkr7 Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 The catch is that you have to be a student, complete with student ID and all that. Do you have to be a student just to buy it, or also to register it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I think just to buy it. It's been a while since I've been a student, so I don't know the specifics anymore. Check out http://www.journeyed.com. They have pretty much everything student related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dollus Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 The student/faculty versions are extremely reasonable in price but you can't charge for any work produced using the educational version regardless of who bought the software. It is for educational use only. I am not sure how they handle educational licenses for those outside of North America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 In my experience when you buy student software, they ask for ID. Sometimes they also ask for proof that you're currently registered. Journeyed will ask you to email scanned copies or fax them. What Antonio is referring to is the Alias "Personal Learning Edition" software, which is great - you don't have to be a student, you can use it as long as you want, and it has all the features, but regular versions won't open PLE files (and PLE won't export portable files) and PLE only does low-res renders. You can download these from the web site and they come on the CDs in the back of Autodesk/Alias brand books They have them for Maya and Studio, I don't know if there are any others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dollus Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Whatever happened to Gmax? Wasn't that Discreet's response to PLE back in the day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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