No point trying lock yourself into autocad, learn on the free stuff. Like JDMather pointed out, your school should upgrade to the latest since its free. Meaning (new) students or schools will not be able to obtain or use that version. Im rebuilding the exoskeleton hand that was posted on thingaverse, will make much nicer prints(flat spots to put on the print bed are something the creator neglected) and they can be easily edited later. The 2012 product line has been retired by Autodesk for a few years now. After 2 years of daily blending, I can make real magic happen, the best is reverse engineering peoples insane meshes(why does your washer have non manifold edges. I used the Install Now option because I want to install the program on this computer. I just devoted my energy to blender, it will be free whenever I need it, it's a one-stop-shop for anything CG/anim, and theres more tutorials than you can imagine. I created a Student account today and tried to download the 2015 Autodesk Inventor. No point in learning it either, it would ne stupid expensive if I ever wanted use models comercialy. The program was a nightmare, all the hotkeys are random(blenders make sense at least, S to scale, E to extrude.), and without that the menus were a pain to find what I wanted. Urg, tried out autocad this way, coming from blender. Non-reddit communities are listed in our getting started guide

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