Autodesk Education Suite for Building Design 2012

Autodesk Education Suite for Building Design 2012 enables students to explore sustainable design analysis and modelling principles and more competently communicate design intent using the tools preferred by industry professionals.

Benefits
• Builds an educational foundation with an enhanced set of tools that includes the power of BIM centred on the Autodesk Revit software platform, and the familiarity of AutoCAD software applications for efficient documentation.
• Extends BIM data to Autodesk 3ds Max® Design software to create compelling visualizations.
• Helps to improve understanding of design intent, increase efficiency, and enable new ways of working with BIM tools that inspire students to create sustainable design and construction.


Autodesk Education Suite for Building Design 2012 includes:

• AutoCAD
• AutoCAD Architecture
• AutoCAD MEP
• AutoCAD Inventor Professional Suite
• AutoCAD Structural Detailing
• Autodesk Ecotect Analysis
• Autodesk Vault
• Autodesk Navisworks Manage
• Autodesk Revit Architecture
• Autodesk Revit MEP
• Autodesk Revit Structure
• Autodesk 3ds Max Design

Autodesk licensing allows for the purchase of multiple software licences while using only a single serial number to install software on PCs. No contract or minimum software purchase is required.

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Technical Specifications:

Operating System
Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, or Professional;
Windows Vista® (SP2) Enterprise, Ultimate, Business;
Windows XP Professional (SP3 or later)
64-bit Note: Windows XP Professinal (SP2 or later)

Browser
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later

Processor
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or AMD Athlon 3 GHz or greater
Intel® or AMD® dual-core processor, 2.0 GHz or greater

RAM
4 GB
64-bit Note: 8 GB or greater for complex models*

Display
1,600 x 1,200 3-bit color video display adapter
512 MB graphics memory
DirectX® 9.0/10 with 2 GB(+) capable graphics card supporting Pixel Shader Model 3
OpenGL® 2.0 specification support
Disk Space
1,000 GB or larger

Mouse
Microsoft mouse–compliant pointing device with three buttons
Wacom™ graphics tablet for sketching

Install Media
DVD (USB for some Education suites)
* Complex models are defined as having 1,000 or more objects or parts. Note that certain applications that are rendering intensive, such as Autodesk® Revit® Architecture, Autodesk® Revit® MEP and Autodesk® Revit® Structure software can require 16 GB or more RAM.

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