How much space should I dedicate from my hard drive for Windows?

So I am going to buy a Macbook Pro w/768 GB Flash Storage. I need to run windows on it for Autodesk products for school. Should I install Windows 7 or 8? And how much of my hard drive should I dedicate to it? I will need Revit, Autocad, & Autocad 3D Civil. I would like to have extra space as well for antivirus and any other possible software I may have to install.
This will be my first Mac so I'm kind of lost.

If that turns out not to be sufficient space then you can use CampTune to add more space non-destructively.
I base it on experience. Windows plus your software will likely take up nearly 40 or 50 GBs altogether. Allow another 20 or 30 GBs for data and miscellaneous. This leaves about 20 GBs of extra space.

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