When performing a stand-alone installation of Revit from the command line, you can use options and parameters with the installation command.
The command line options can also be used when installing Revit add-ons (using an EXE file) that use the Autodesk install framework.
| Option - Short | Option - Long | Property | Description |
| -h | --help | This prints the available program options and a short description for each parameter | |
| --auth_param arg | %AUTH_PARAM% | This specifies the authentication parameter used for licensing. | |
| -e arg | --extract_path arg | %EXTRACT_PATH% | This specifies the extraction point for all downloaded packages. |
| -d arg | --install_dest arg | %INSTALL_DEST% | This specifies the folder path to which the product should be installed. This value refers to the user's selection if any. Default: the ODIS-defined default path on each platform. |
| -i arg | --install_mode arg | %INSTALL_MODE% | This specifies the type of operation that ODIS will run. Available values:
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| -s arg | --install_source arg | %INSTALL_SOURCE% | This specifies the root folder path of the packages to be installed. Default: the folder path of this manifest |
| -l arg | --language_code arg | %LANGUAGE_CODE% | This specifies the language code which is currently in use in the installer. |
| -m arg | --manifest arg | %MANIFEST% | This specifies the file path of the manifest to be loaded for this installation Defaults to the setup.xml file in the root directory of your installation master. |
| --offline_mode arg | %OFFLINE_MODE% | (Boolean) This indicates that the Installer is being launched from local media. | |
| -q | --silent | %SILENT% | (Flag) This specifies that the UI should not show. This will also set ui_mode to silent . See --ui_mode . |
| --trial_mode | %TRIAL_MODE% | (Flag) This specifies that the product should be installed as Trial | |
| --ui_mode arg | %UI_MODE% | This specifies the mode of the installer UI. Available values:
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