AEC Collection installation script

Simon_Weel — Thu, 18 May 2017 07:56:33 GMT

One advantage of AEC Collection compared to Building Design Suite is one only has to download the programs actually being used. Disadvantage is there's no way to create a single deployment for all used programs nor is there single setup program to actually install those programs.

So I created a CMD file to take care of the installation. At the moment, we use AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks and ReCap. I want those applications to install silently. Putting the setup commands for each application in the CMD script one after the other won't work correctly. For example, if Setup.exe for AutoCAD is launched, it starts acad.msi and Setup.exe terminates. For CMD, this is the signal the next line in the script has to be executed. For example, install Revit. The Setup.exe for Revit is started which in turn executes RVT.msi. And then a window pops up there's already an installation ongoing.

What's needed is a way to detect if the installation of a program has finished before CMD continues with the next line in the script. Any ideas?

BTW: 'Start "application" /wait ...' won't do.

Simon

Re: AEC Collection installation script

DannyHubbard — Wed, 24 May 2017 14:56:07 GMT

Simon,

You might check out the previous thread it should help.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/installation-licensing/batch-install-waiting-for-install-to-finish/m-p/4672953/highlight/true#M75399

Thanks,

Danny

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