Sure I ignored Rhino and let the 90 days lapse. But you’d think you’d be able to load a dwg (even though you can not save it). It comes up with no objects.
The evaluation should be based on hours of use, not days, as I was too busy with other jobs to evaluate.
As I can’t even load a simple dwg from draftsight, I can not really conisider this as a 3D drafting program.
Thanks
Interesting idea.
Practically if it was to be based on hours then it would need a sophisticated trackingsystem that isn’t easy to crack, that would probably require an online check and a sign up. Would that suit you?
And theoretically when such a system is up and running it would also open up for the ability to rent a license for a week. Or rent a render plugin. That could be a nice addition for McNeel.
After 90 days, plug-ins are disabled - to prevent people from writing a plug-in that circumvents the safeguards essentially - and unfortunately all import/export functions in Rhino are actually plug-ins…
This actually sounds like a bug. We digitally sign many of the plug-ins that ship with Rhino to allow them to load even after the eval has expired. I would think import plug-ins would fall into this category.
@brian, are we signing these plug-ins
Sorry about that. This is a bug that is fixed in SR10. Please install SR10 Release Candidate 2 from http://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino/5/latest/rc to be able to read files from the expired evaluation.