Create an account as an educator or IT admin or log in to the Autodesk Education Community: https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/fusion-360-for-educational-institutions

(This is the site where schools, teachers, and students 13 years and older can download Autodesk software for their school or personal computer for educational, non-commercial use.)

Sign in or register for an Autodesk account. Then, select your “Educational role”, and complete the form that follows this step to access the education community. You’ll be asked for details about your educational institution and how you plan to use the software.

If you choose the Educator role, you must select, “Personal Use and Educational Institution Deployment.”

From the “Get free software” page https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/all scroll down and click “Fusion 360 for Educational Institutions,” which is intended to be installed on lab computers.

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Create an account

Select account type

Download Fusion 360 for use in your Education lab

Lab install process

Download the Fusion 360 lab install package and execute it on each client computer:• Run the executable from Windows Explorer, a

command shell, script, or software distribution management system.

• The executable will prompt for administrator privileges if it does not already have them.

Please note: Fusion 360 is updated approximately every four to eight weeks and regular updates to lab installations are highly recommended to avoid file version issues between lab and single user installs. On this site you can sign up to be notified about when the update is available. (You must be signed in as an educator or admin)

4 Take note of updates

Once the download file is opened, Fusion 360 will go through a set up process, and you will be presented with an installation bar.

Please note: When the install completes, Fusion will launch automatically. This may take a few minutes.

Each student (13 and older) and the educator will need to create an Autodesk ID on the Autodesk Education Community in order to log in to Fusion 360.

To help you and your students learn Fusion 360, you can access free learning content here: https://academy.autodesk.com/curriculum/productdesign-fusion-360

Fusion 360 features and functionality training tutorialsare available on the Fusion 360 product center:http://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/

If you need additional support, visit us here: https://www.autodesk.com/education/support

If you want more detailed technical information about installing Fusion 360 into a lab environment, please reference this additional resource. *Please note: You will need to sign in to the Education Community to access this file.

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Set up

Create an Autodesk account to sign in to Fusion 360

Access learning & teaching resources

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Use your Autodesk ID that you created in step 6 to log into Fusion 360.

Each student and educator will need to activate Fusion 360 under an Education entitlement.

7 Login & activate Fusion 360

Lab install process

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