Autodesk Autocad 2020 Did Not Install Error 1603

[Yogprasad Moneta]

Youwould think adesk would announce such a transition. I get adesk people asking me how to improve their install experience, and they don't seem to understand the difference between users with admin, and those without. Two totally different worlds.

No, uninstall / reinstall of autodesk desktop license service seems to have fixed it. However, doing so wiped out my settings to factory on the 2023 install. It's a brand new computer, but migrating from the 2022 install settings from the old computer failed too, so I am just used to doing things the hard way with Autodesk's products, and recreating all of my settings with each release.

Was unable to install Civil 3D 2024 because of the 6013 error. I used the download links provided in the first reply above. I was successful installing the program but every time I start the program the first time I am asked to sign into my account which goes fine. Immediately after I get an dialog box that it keeps telling me that "No active subscription or trial could be found for this email" even though the top bar shows me signed in. I have tried to run the AdskLicensingInstaller-win-13.2.0.9150 license program without success.

Unfortunately, it's not writing a log file in "%temp%." Until yesterday, it used to, but now not so much. We tried both the INSTALL NOW from the manage.autodesk.com Website and the Autodesk Desktop Installer app.

Our IT department tried their best, but it stumped them, too. So we did a complete uninstall and tried to reinstall. During the installation, when the percentage wheel was going, it would get up to anywhere from 87% to 95% complete, then stop, unwind, and declare the installation a failure, with error code 1603.

I guess the next step is to wipe her computer's hard drive clean and start over. It will be painful, but she has not been able to use AutoCAD for a week now, and and using AutoCAD 95% of her job, and is part of the critical path to production in the Company.

Normally error code 1603 should be an error code from windows installer. If you can't find log files in the %temp% it is possible, that the log file creation of this msi package is not enabled as default.

Yes, that is what I'm looking for. Is it possible to get the "Autodesk_AutoCAD_Private_2022_install.log" from you, that I can check in detail ? But in the log file are confidential information (Serial number, license server, etc...) so may be it is better, that you send me the log file via e-mail. If this is an option for you, I will send you a private message with my e-mail Address.

under the condition, that currently there is no AutoCAD 2022 or any other Autodesk product installed on that pc, you should not have the file C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Adlm\ProductInformation.pit.

Because if AutoCAD 2022 does a successful uninstall and no other Autodesk product is installed and registered the file is deleted, because during the uninstall the AutoCAD installer makes an "unregister".

But if you get the same error, next step is to install AutoCAD without the "licRegister" custom action during the install. Then AutoCAD should install. After we try to manually register with the "license helper" from Autodesk.

The Fatal Error 1603 can occur during the installation of Autodesk Desktop Connector v16 if the previous version of the Autodesk Desktop Connector was not uninstalled properly. This version requires a complete removal of the previous one, and the error is likely due to remnants of the old installation still present on the system. You can confirm this issue by reviewing the installation log file located at C:\Users%username%\AppData\Local\Autodesk\ODIS. The log file will contain lines similar to the following:

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I encountered this issue a couple times with our 2017 deployment but it was really sporadic and I just got around it by running the install on those specific machines directly from the installer rather than the deployment.

If you want more info on this error, google Windows error 1708 and 1603. These errors are generated when a 3rd party application use the Windows MSI installer to install its software. I did not find a lot on AutoCAD and these errors but there is some general info that may help.

I can not seem to get Revit 2021 to install. Have tried everything I can find for fixes/solutions and still it errors out with a 1603 every time at about 4%. Anyone have this problem or know any obscure tips or tricks? Have tried everything from emptying %TEMP% folder, registry edits, clean uninstall of all previous versions of Revit and associated add-ons, desktop app install, install via autodesk accounts install now, browser download, and the other option, a few other things... Even tried washing the magical crystal rock my wife gave me for computer issues... Thought that would for sure work but still nothing

We are an organization of about 20 users. Most have had no troubles with the update, but there are 4 of us (so far) having the same issue? After wiping out Revit 2019 and 2020 I was able to reinstall 2020 with no problem but no go with 2021

Actually just got it to install! Not sure why, maybe has/had something to do with folder permissions as questioned above. It shouldn't though and have never had an issue like that before... logged in/on my machine with our IT managers credentials and it installed just fine. Even he is a bit confused as to why that did the trick being we all should have the same admin rights... It was a non issue for most of our organization except a few. Anyway that seemed to have done the trick.

Thank you for confirming that you now have Revit 2021 installed. Keep in mind that the Revit 2021 installation includes .NET 4.8 and Microsoft VC runtimes, without seeing your log files, which may have been failing under your specific permissions level.

Inventor 2020 keeps failing to install after an attempt to install Nastran incad 2019.2 before trying to do a clean uninstall of both softwares. I have tried deleting every registry key and files system wide but the problem still persists. I tried all the solutions of this forum ( -... I hve further more tried using CCleaner to clear redundant registry entries. It seems to keep failing at the actual inventor installation stage.

If you used the Browser method of download, make sure you have three (3) separate files before trying to install. The files are self-expanding EXE files which I would run and expand to a common folder. Then install from this folder.

I have looked at your Inventor2020install.log file. The line of text, MSI (s) (D0:9C) [10:46:40:330]: Machine policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0, is what is causing the problem. DisableRollback is a registry entry for Microsoft Installer. I had the same problem trying to install Inventor 2020. The problem is that Inventor setup is looking for the registry value DisableRollback in \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer. On my machine this did not exist. I had to create a registry key \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer then create a new dword value DisableRollback, I then set the value of DisableRollback to 1, and Inventor 2020 installed without issue. I had tried to install with DisableRollback = 0 , but inventor still crashed with a 1603 error. There is not a lot of information from Microsoft (as usual) regarding DisableRollback. I hope Autodesk will fix this issue, as it took me two days of hair pulling and swearing,until I fixed this issue

Hi! I guess you were using Install Now option. It requires stable high speed internet connection to do that. Please download the install files to your local disc (10+GB) and then install from the local drive.

Hi! I am not aware of an Inventor install bug requiring reinstalling Windows. It does not make sense to me. Either the your user profile has some restriction preventing you from setting things up. Or, you don't have read/write privilege to some folders. Please try creating a new user on your machine with Power User or Admin privilege.

The error 1603 is a generic error code generated by Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) that indicates a problem during the installation. This error is more likely to be system-related than software-specific.

You may receive this error due to one of the following factors:

Disclaimer: This section contains information about modifying the registry. Improperly editing the registry can lead to software corruption and data loss. Before you modify the registry, make sure you back up the registry and understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. By proceeding beyond this point, you acknowledge that you understand the risks inherent in incorrectly editing the registry and that by proceeding, you agree to accept these risks.

Sometimes error 1603 may also occur if antivirus software is not up to date. Please make certain that the antivirus software is up to date and/or temporarily disable your antivirus software until the installation of the software product is complete.

The error 1603 might occur on a computer system that does not have enough disk space to install the setup and store rollback files. This space is required on the root drive even if the setup may be installed to a different drive. Check that there is enough space on the root drive of the computer system. This space is required by setup to decompress files in the temp directory and store rollback information in the Windows directory of the computer.

If there is not enough space available to install the software, remove some third-party software or run a disk cleaner utility to free up hard drive storage. Refer to this article from Microsoft to learn about various tips to free up disk space.

Even though errors 1603 and 1619 are notoriously vague, their variants are fairly well documented by Autodesk and the Autodesk community and can be addressed by resolving the offending installer package.

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