I learnt a couple of versions ago that it is vastly better to change your install options for Revit to one of the two ‘Download’ methods, instead of the default ‘Install Now’. This gives you so much better control. In fact you can change your Autodesk profile settings to default to Download instead of Install Now. Despite this, the ‘Content’ is not included in that, and still gets downloaded during the install – but once you have the content from your first install you can uncheck that option for any future installs.
Once you have downloaded the software, you can run the install from your own network or C drive when it suits you, not as part of the initial download process.
The Install
The Autodesk install Help Files section on ‘Changes to Installation’ states the following:
If
you are responsible for installing or upgrading the Revit or Revit LT
software to a new release, learn about recent changes to the
installation process.
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