For Information: Revit 2021.1.2 Hot-Fix and InstallLocation

[matthew_taylor]

Hello all,

Just passing on some relevant information.

Upon installing the Revit 2021.1.2 hot-fix the InstallLocation registry property no longer reports the correct value.

Our installation location bible reference from @jeremytammik shows us where to look in the registry for the installation location of Revit: https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2013/04/perpetual-guid-algorithm-and-revit-2014-product-gu... 

This information is still accurate, but some of the information that we may go there for is no longer valid.

At this location:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{7346B4A0-2100-0510-0000-705C0D862004}

Our value for InstallLocation is now:

Revit 2021\

instead of a fully qualified path such as:

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Revit 2021\

I believe someone from our organisation is reporting this issue, but I would suggest creating your own support call with Autodesk if this change affects you.

I hope this saves someone out there a bit of time.

[m.dijkman]

We encountered this problem with installing RhinoInside for Revit 2021.

it can't install it because of this InstallLocation

[jeremy_tammik]

Dear Matt,

Thank you very much for pointing this out. I am asking the development team whether this is intentional.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[jeremy_tammik · Accepted solution]

The development team responded that this is a known issue and resolved in Revit 2022. I hope this helps.

[matthew_taylor]

Thanks @jeremy_tammik!

Yes, I noticed it was no longer an issue in 2022. 🙂

Hope things are well with you.