Student accounts
A larger free tier for students and researchers — verify an academic email address, what it unlocks, and why it is re-confirmed every year.
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Elementarium has no separate educational licence to apply for. A free account with a verified academic email address becomes a student account, and the caps on the free plan open up for coursework and a thesis.
What it unlocks
| Free | Student | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | €0 | €0 |
| Cloud projects | 3 | 30 |
| Model size | 500 degrees of freedom | 5,000 degrees of freedom |
| Design checks per project | 1 | 10 |
| Everything else | The full solver, all four analyses, every design module | The same |
Every quota is ten times the Free one, which is enough for a meshed slab or a multi-storey frame from a thesis. Nothing switched on by Pro — code-generated combinations, the full report presets, export, real-time collaboration — opens with it, and the summary report keeps its watermark.
Verifying
- Sign up with any email address, or use the account you already have.
- In your account settings, enter your institutional email address — the one your university or research institute issued.
- Confirm the address from the message we send to it.
The address is checked against a list of recognised academic institutions. It must be an address the institution issued, not a personal one; if yours is not recognised, mail [email protected] with the institution and we will look at it.
The academic address is used for verification only. Your sign-in address does not change, and one academic address can be linked to one account.
No card, no student ID scan and no letter from the department. The address is the proof.
It is re-confirmed yearly
Institutional mailboxes are reclaimed after graduation, so the verification is trusted for one year and then asked for again. The account tells you before it lapses — the renewal window opens thirty days ahead — and re-verifying is the same three steps.
Who it is for
Anyone with an academic address: undergraduates working through a structures course, postgraduates modelling a thesis structure, and staff who want a solver that opens on the lecture-theatre projector without a licence server on the campus network. The verification does not ask what you do with it.
Teaching with it
These make Elementarium convenient in a classroom, and none need the student tier:
- Nothing to install. A student on a locked-down laptop, a Chromebook or a tablet opens the same URL as everyone else and gets the whole solver.
- The same model on every machine. Sign in on the lab computer and on the laptop at home; the project is in both places.
- The worked examples open without an account. The examples page links four real models — a portal-framed hall, a concrete floor bay, a lattice tower and a road overpass — that open read-only and solved in the editor, with the project file available to download. They all solve again in the browser with F5, the overpass included; it is over even the academic DoF limit, so solving your own copy of it needs Pro.
- The theory is written down. Element formulations, sign conventions and the direct stiffness method are documented as the solver implements them, which is what a student checking a hand calculation needs.
If you run a course and want something the tier does not cover — a shared set of projects for a class, say — mail us. During the beta these requests reach the person who builds the product.
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