Revit 2022 Full Download 

 Original Autodesk Direct Links



Here follows installation Method in steps 



Download and Extraction

The download file size is  8.5 Gb

The download/extraction process still needs 45Gb+ of free space on your hard disk .  

Installation

Having completed the extraction process (by double clicking on the first downloaded file), it gave me an error message saying that it could not proceed with the install.  Well, that was fortunate because I don't want it to go straight from Extraction to Install - I see those as separate processes anyway.

The first step is to move the 5 downloaded files to safe place








Once the install process starts, it seems the same as previous years but there are some subtle differences:
  • Content is not automatically installed.

Content

The release notes make no mention whatsoever about the changes to the default installation of content - you either have to refer to Dan Stine's AEC Bytes article to find this, or dig deep in the Autodesk help file to find notes on the significant change to content installation.

  • What this means is that all the normal content that was previously installed with Revit is no longer done automatically.
  • Now it only installs the core content that is required to run Revit - templates and sample files.
  • Additional content can be added to the install process, but only for select countries:
    • US Base Families
    • UK Base Families
    • German Base Families
  • Additional content can also be installed later - using the 'Get Autodesk Content' command on the 'Insert' menu.


Install Settings

After choosing British English as the language (and it knows my location as Australia), you might expect the installer to know what content you might be interested in - but no, the default is for US Base Families.

  • NB. Make sure you don't miss the settings for Revit itself - the tiny drop-down arrow below the checkbox for Autodesk Revit 2021 - I did forget it this year, despite writing it up previously.
    • This should allow you to uncheck the MEP Fabrication options - assuming that you don't want them.

  • After changing the additional content from US to UK Base Families, the required space drops from 8.05Gb to 7.05Gb.  That makes you wonder what the rest of the world is missing out on relative to the extra 1Gb in the US supplied base families.

  • By default the Medium and Advanced materials libraries check-boxes are ticked.

  • The installer automatically picks up your country from the computer settings.

  • Once you start installing you get the usual pretty pictures that have less relevance to Revit with each passing year.

  • On completion, Revit tells you what it installed

  • This includes the things that you did not want it to install:

  • The next step is to remove those items that you don't want
    • A few years back Autodesk Desktop App was not working properly, so I always remove it - not sure if it works consistently now, but I always want to install updates in my own time, not as soon as they are released.  Remember the Revit 2020.2 "Internal Origin Debacle"!
    • As a BIM Manager you will want to control if and when point releases are installed - so you absolutely do not want users to click on yes to upgrades when they get prompted.

  • Having accidentally installed MEP Fabrication Imperial and Metric they do show up in the Programs list as separate elements, although only listed as 'content', with no mention of Fabrication - however, this may not be such a big deal as the files are small, so I only removed the Imperial content.



Here are some of the files that I found, which looked superfluous to me:

Steel Connections

  • Multiple Country folders

  • Removing all the except the country I chose saved 700 Mb

Templates

  • All those country templates cause 1.45Gb of bloat

  • The various discipline project templates may or may not be required depending on your company

  • Family templates are also bloated with countries other than those required

  • A quick tidy up removes 130 Mb of family templates


  • Install temp files were not automatically removed - all 2.7 Gb of them
  • There are also 110+ Mb of install log files, but I would not recommend removing those

Sample Files

  • Do we really need all these sample files to be installed in the Program Files directory?  All 571 Mb of them?  The largest 5 of them are 450 Mb worth of stuff I have never used - and those exist in each version of Revit that you have installed.
  • NB. I would recommend leaving at least the basic ones for your chosen discipline(s).

Country Code

This starts getting risky as you might accidentally delete something vital, but in the Program Files Revit 2021 folder there are another 420Mb of country-specific folders full of dlls


There is probably more space junk in there that you could remove, but it all takes time so I think I've reached the law of diminishing returns point - until the next time I want to install some Autodesk software!  Then I will need vast amounts of spare disk space again.

I don't think the writers of the installation software have any conception of the real world out there - they don't understand that taking the easy option for them is really annoying for end-users and BIM Managers.  It also wastes a huge amount of time for those of us who don't have endless disk capacity and actually want to minimise the amount of junk on our computers.



Download Links 

Autodesk.com
 
 Revit 2022 G1 Win 64bit 1      (1.96Gb)
 Revit 2022 G1 Win 64bit 2     (1.96Gb)
 Revit 2022 G1 Win 64bit 3     (1.96Gb)
 Revit 2022 G1 Win 64bit 4     (1.96Gb)
 Revit 2022 G1 Win 64bit 5     (400Mb)

























Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Archive

https://www.wikihow.com/Clean-the-Windows-Registry-by-Hand Preparing to Clean the Registry Image titled Understand Icon31 Understand the consequences of editing the Registry. The Windows Registry stores information about every process, program, and setting on your computer, so removing the wrong entry can result in your computer failing to work properly. Image titled Understand Icon42 Know the safest way to clean the Registry. Unfortunately, cleaning the Registry by hand isn't safe, and following the steps in this article may not result in your computer speeding up or resolving corrupted Registry entries due to the limited approach you'll have to take. If you want to clean your Registry in an effective, thorough manner without deleting anything important, use the Registry Cleaner app instead. Image titled Clean the Windows Registry by Hand Step 33 Understand the process you'll use to manually clean the Registry. The best way to clean the Registry without using a program is...
Read more