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Twinmotion for Revit user controllable version to Open in Twinmotion

Twinmotion for Revit user controllable version to Open in Twinmotion

The current setup for Twinmotion for Revit's "Open in Twnimotion" functionality is not user controllable or definable. With the release of TM4Revit 2023.1 Revit 2023.1 expects for TM4Revit 2022.2.3 or Twinmotion 2023.1 to be installed. The problems is that install locations and order appear to define what version of Twinmotion gets launched, but there is no easy route to get there. There is no user option or configuration file that can be used to define the desired version to open. This makes it difficult to support or train users as we need to support multiple versions of Twinmotion for Revit so as to not cause the "Open in Twinmotion" functionality to error.

The current approach makes managing Twinmotion For Revit difficult as the current approach requires Twinmotion for Revit 2022.2.3 and 2023.1 to both be installed. When you have people working on projects in different versions of Revit it can become problematic on the Visualization side of things. There are ways to minimize the distribution for users, but again makes management very difficult when looking at larger organizations and the underlying changes made in Twinmotion 2023.1 that makes it incompatible with the previous versions. Currently, it also means any user library assets (which we are trying to consolidate in a single network location) must be duplicated in different locations because of the different version requirements.


 

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eric.craft.MH
Participant

I found that TM4Revit in Revit 2023.1 will load from "C:\Program Files\Epic Games\Twinmotion2023.1\" instead of TM4Revit. So to work around this and force it to use the new TM4Revit release with Revit 2023.1 I created a symbolic link from the new TM4Revit install to Twinmotion2023.1 folder. So a basic workaround is below.

mklink /d "C:\Program Files\Epic Games\Twinmotion2023.1" "C:\Program Files\Epic Games\Twinmotion 2023.1-Revit"

 

eric.craft.MH
Participant

After looking into this deeper I created a batch file to address it by adjusting certain registry entries. For details, check my GitHub project TwinmotionForAnyRevit, where you'll find the script and notes.

 

Until there's an official fix, I hope this helps others.

 

-Eric

Status changed to: Accepted

Congrats! We think this is a great idea, so we've decided to add it to our roadmap. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

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 The Factory

Status changed to: Implemented

We are pleased to say that this has been implemented in Revit 2026.4! Thank you for your contribution to improving Revit!

 

Use Preferred Twinmotion Version (What's New in 2026.4)

 

 -The Factory

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