Start a Trial

30-day trials are available for Forma Design Collaboration, Forma Build Essentials, Forma Data Management Essentials and Forma Takeoff. You can start a trial in many ways, including from Autodesk Forma Products Homepage and email communications, but the most common method of starting a trial is through a project invitation. To do so:

  1. Open the email invitation and click Activate your membership.

  2. Sign in to the product.

    Note: If you already have an Autodesk ID, sign in with these credentials. Otherwise create a new personal Autodesk account.

  3. After signing in, you'll land in the project and you'll see a message telling you which trials you need access to. Since you don't have a subscription yet, click Start Trial.

    Note: The products you've been invited to use may be available across multiple offerings. In that scenario, you must start individual trials for the relevant product offering of Forma Design Collaboration, Forma Build Essentials, Forma Data Management Essentials, and Forma Takeoff. See the About Autodesk Forma topic to learn more about what is included in each subscription offering.

After starting the trial, click into the product picker in the top-left corner of the screen to see what products are available to you. If you have a subscription to one product and a trial to another, you'll see both products visible here.

If you start a trial of Forma Build, you also get a sample project. This project is unique to you. You can use it to get familiar with using Build. To open the sample project:

  1. If you're in Build, click the project drop-down menu and choose Sample Project.

  2. If you're in the Project List, click Sample Project in the list of available projects.

Start a Trial for a Teammate

Hub and project administrators can provide trial access to project members. To do so:

  1. From Project Admin, click Add members.

  2. Enter the user's email to add the user to the project and select the desired product to provide trial access.

    Note: You can select multiple products to trial.

  3. When the user activates their membership by clicking on the email inviting them to the project, they’ll be automatically enrolled in a trial for 30 days.

    Note: This trial access does not provide access to an individual hub or sample project. Users will trial products in the existing project and hub.
 

Start a Trial on an Existing Project

Hub and project administrators can provide access to additional products as a trial on existing projects. To do so:

  1. From Project Admin, select the member you’d like to provide trial access.

  2. Select the desired product to provide trial access.

    Note: You can select multiple products to trial.

Members will notice additional products in the product picker and will automatically be enrolled in a 30 day trial when they access those products for the first time.

Note: This trial access does not provide access to an individual hub or sample project. Members will trial products in the existing project and hub.
 

Manage Your Trial

Visit manage.autodesk.com page to view the status of your trial. After you sign in, switch to the Products and Services tab at the top and then click the Trials sub tab to see your trials and how many days remain.

If you're ready to purchase a subscription, you can do so from construction.autodesk.com or from autodesk.com.

After you've purchased a subscription, you'll have the option of converting your trial when activating your hub.