Activating Project Spark

Today's blog post comes compliments of Emily Marcus. Emily is a Principal Engineer in our AEC division. Via Scott Sheppard's Blog...

Project Spark is available as a technology preview until July 7, 2012. However, to use it after downloading from the Autodesk Labs site until July 7, you must activate the product. If you receive the message (shown below) that says you are using a 30-day trial of Project Spark then you need to activate the product:

To activate it, choose the activate button. When you are prompted for the serial number and product code, enter:

• Serial Number: 361-14922611
• Product code: 828E1

You will also need to agree to Autodesk’s privacy policy.

 The entire process should take less than five minutes. Once you have activated Project Spark you can continue using it until July 7. This way you can give us feedback at labs.revit.spark@autodesk.com or the discussion forum throughout the entire period of the technology preview.

For further information check out Scott's Blog: http://labs.blogs.com/its_alive_in_the_lab/2011/09/how-to-activate-project-spark.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ItsAliveInTheLab+%28It%27s+Alive+in+the+Lab%29

The system requirements are pretty light as well: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/spark/system_reqs/

Sparky....Autodesk Spark

Coool..... I just loaded Autodesk Spark and gave it a quick spin around the block....

Great, a basic LT version of Revit.. I was wondering how long it would be until Autodesk created a lighter version of Revit for those working on simpler projects.

From what I've seen so far this is a great program. It does have some limitations such as:

And really the only things I would miss if I was working on a project would be Rendering, In-place families (but if I have the ability to create Families I guess I can live without In-place Families) and Design Options.

This is going to be a great program for the sole business operator or a small design company with a handful of people. If Autodesk prices this similar to AutoCAD LT (which is a 'smokin' good deal for what you get) its going to be a very popular pony in the Autodesk stable.

Looks and feels very much like Revit, same file extensions so in larger offices may have both running. I'm using Revit as a viewer for some of the people in the office here who just need to view the model and pull information from the model but they cant save any changes, with spark they'll be able to create schedules etc without me having to spend the big bucks on additional licenses for this type of user... love that!

System requirements are pretty lights as well: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/spark/system_reqs/

Right on Autodesk!

Project Spark

David Light wrote a great blog about Autodesk's new product currently available from Autodesk Labs called "Spark".

David wrote that Spark is like a LT Version of Revit. Great for colaboration....

Might be worth while talking a look and downloading it to try it out, you'll need to create a log in to access Autodesk Labs if you dont already have one.

check out David Lights blog http://autodesk-revit.blogspot.com/

System Requirements:  http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/spark/system_reqs/