Autodesk Educational Licensing Model – 2025 Update

Autodesk has introduced significant changes to its educational licensing model in 2025, affecting students, educators, researchers, and academic institutions. As confirmed by Autodesk Support on July 31, 2025, the company is transitioning entirely to a named-user licensing system, phasing out both network server licenses and multi-seat standalone (MSSA) license keys. Under this new model, each user must create an Autodesk account, and a license will be assigned to their official institutional email address upon request.
The existing network and MSSA educational licenses will be discontinued on March 25, 2026. Institutions currently relying on these legacy models must migrate to the new named-user system to ensure uninterrupted access. For more information, please refer here.

Action Required

• For IT representatives managing Autodesk licenses at your institution, please provide a CSV file containing the first name, last name, and institutional email address of all Autodesk users at your institution and the Autodesk products required via email to scs-contact∂scc.kit.edu.
•  For KIT members requesting access to Autodesk products, please send your first name, last name, and institutional email address along with the Autodesk products required via email to scs-contact∂scc.kit.edu.

Next Steps

•  If you already have an official Autodesk account registered with your KIT credentials, you will receive an email with instructions to download the requested software.
• If you do not yet have an Autodesk account, you will receive an invitation email from Autodesk to set up and verify your profile. Once completed, you will then be able to download the software.

The software is distributed via shares. All the necessary information for the installation can be found in the file https://ftp.scc.kit.edu/pub/campus/AUTODESK/Education_Community/Lizenzdaten.txt.
You can only access this link from the campus network. If you are not in the campus network you have to connect to it e.g. via VPN.

If the use of the software is for purposes other than non-commercial learning, teaching, training, research and development, it is commercial use.

For example, educational licenses may NOT be used for research with the intention of generating income or for the real estate management (facility management ) of the educational institution. Use for the real estate management of the educational institution means, for example, that the software is used for the planning, construction and maintenance of the buildings and infrastructure of the educational institution. Commercial licenses must be purchased for these purposes.

The main licensing issues are explained in the document Clarification_on_the_use_of_Autodesk_Education_Licenses_en.pdf.

The currently applicable Software License Agreements must be adhered to.