Free AutoCAD Architecture, Revit Architecture and AutoDesk VIZ Serial Number

AutoDesk Education has been offering its software to students for free for quite some time, possibly two years ago. Anyway, they are giving away 13 month genuine free serial numbers / License key for AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Autodesk VIZ, Revit Architecture and many more, except for Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, and Autodesk Mudbox. All you need to do is sign up and verify your student email address. Yes, it’s free!

But as with all free products, don’t forget the asterisk and the magnifying glass. The free software is for personal use purposes and is subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that accompanies download of the software. These free software are full working versions (student editions) and the only difference between the student version and a commercial version is the watermark found in every final print. The student version will print a border around any print that says “PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT “. View print banner sample.

Fill in the registration form together with your valid student email address.

When you are done, check your student email account and activate your AutoDesk Education account as shown in the image above.

Visit the URL address to activate your account, you will be redirected to the AutoDesk Education website, log in and visit the ’software download’ section.

About the free AutoDesk student version

• The student version is valid for 13-month
• Must be a full time student with a valid student email address from your university
• The software license is for a single-seat or single-user. It cannot be set up on a network.
• Autodesk serial numbers are issued based on country. You will be issued a serial number based on the country location of your school.
• The Autodesk Student Version software incorporates all the functionality of our professional licenses, but includes a print banner making the software inappropriate for professional, commercial, or for-profit purposes. View print banner sample.

Available AutoDesk Software

Revit Architecture
Revit Structure
Revit MEP
Autodesk Navisworks Manage
Autodesk Ecotect
Green Building Studio
AutoCAD Architecture
AutoCAD Civil 3D
AutoCAD Electrical
AutoCAD Map 3D
AutoCAD MEP
AutoCAD Raster Design
Autodesk 3ds Max (30-day trial only)
Autodesk AliasStudio
Autodesk Impression
Autodesk Inventor
Autodesk Maya (30-day trial only)
Autodesk MotionBuilder
Autodesk Mudbox (30-day trial only)
Autodesk Showcase Professional
Autodesk SketchBook Pro
Autodesk VIZ

Why trouble yourself with the student version when the internet is flooded with so many pirated versions, the best part is it comes with no limitation or overprint, albeit some comes with viruses and trojans. With all the watermark plastered over your final print, it gives me the feeling of ‘I don’t want to lie to you and don’t want to tell you the truth either.’ Personally I think it makes more sense to sell a USD20 to USD50 ‘light’ student version with no limitation or watermark. Who needs are those bell and whistle in AutoCAD? A simple CAD tool is good enough.

The Bund, Cheng Huang Temple, and Shanghai Architecture

Image Source: Jref

The Bund, former financial capital of Asia during the 1920’s, the Bund is a must visit destination for those visiting China, it is home to historic buildings of Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Beaux-Arts, and Art Deco architecture. “No Dogs or Chinese Allowed.” Yes, the infamous sign board I went hunting and to my horror, I couldn’t find it anywhere. A quick search on Google revealed the widely spread gossip is nothing more than a gossip. Period.

Right across the causeway, this is the ‘most amazing’ view you will see from the Bund. This is possibly ugliest cityscape on planet earth after Dubai. A band aid solution, a Frankenstein city, the 21st century Disneyland for businessman. Note all those ball like structure, I wonder if that is how they define ‘Pearl of the East’, sorry Shanghai, you’ve lost your pearls when you embrace communism.

I told my friends if we were to remove every Chinese from the sidewalk of Shanghai and we’ll be wondering if we are currently strolling down the street in a European city. Back in the 20’s, Shanghai was the most advance and dynamic city in Asia known as the ‘Pearl of the East’, it is a city for gamblers, gangsters, revolutionaries, adventurers, and many other shady characters from across the Asia. The boom ended in 1949 with the Communists coming to power and the invasion of China by Japan.

Although the colonial masters left in drove due to the war, the buildings they built stayed behind, ironically it survived Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution where anti-western/colonial and pro-Chinese Culture was the policy of the day.

Notice those cables running across the city? According to a news back in 2007, trams are making a comeback to Shanghai after a 30-year absence. The funny thing is, instead of a ‘tram’ I saw a typical buses on four wheels powered by the cables, weird.

With 1.3 billion people in China and 22 million in Shanghai, China is definitely not a place I want to live, glad that my ancestor migrated to Malaysia. It is simply too crowded, while browsing through books in ‘Shanghai Book City’, a seven stories book store and people kept shoving me as they pass by, annoying yet culturally acceptable.

Chenghuang temple is a Taoist temple, well, it used to be until the communist came and implement the Cultural Revolution policy that changed China’s culture forever. No longer a temple due to the communist destruction, it is now a shopping mall, to be precise, it’s an open mall. Lots of renovation and restoration, am not too sure which part is original and which isn’t, from what I heard the carvings on the newer buildings are unique in the sense that they are all individually craved, no mass production in the land known as the factory of the world.

This is like traveling back to time.

One can’t boast that he had been to shanghai if he did not pay a visit to ChengHuang temple. It is a shopping heaven; I think I fell in love the open air shopping mall concept, too bad the weather in Malaysia is too hot and humid for such a concept.

Shanghai is indeed an amazing city.