You should have gotten a license key in the mail when you downloaded Rhino. How did you install the key (if you did)? Locally on the machine or did you create a Rhino account and put the key in the Cloud Zoo?
You’ll probably have to remove the expired V7 eval key from your Account login, and add it as a stand alone license.
Then it will run without the ability to Save/Export or load plug-ins.
It will work great for running tutorials or as a viewer.
Wow, that’s the most convoluted mess I’ve ever seen.
How is anybody supposed to come up with that solution?
Why doesn’t any of those screens contain a hint for demo users?
That second screen holds many options, why not make one for the Demo there?
Not even sure why a save disabled demo would need a license to run?
Well, whatever, at least Rhino doesn’t run in circles now and opens.
The demo download pages says:
" This is the evaluation version. Saving and plug-ins stop working 90 days after you download, unless you purchase. (After 90 days, it will still work great tolearnRhino and toviewRhino and many other file formats.)
I just tried to import an obj file to test the subdivision surfaces for an upcoming job to see if it will do what I need, but I get only:
Hahahaha, I seem to stumble over every possible issue, first Cycles not working with multiple GPUs, now these…
Somehow I don’t seem to be compatible with Rhino…
I’ll have to see if I just stay with my old Rhino 5 or take the plunge regardless of my complicated relationship with this software and it’s - to me - alien mindset.
Working in Houdini for years has me seriously spoiled.
Don’t see that fixed here, still getting a black rendering with a GTX 1080 TI and a RTX 2080 TI in Cuda Mode. Windows 8.1 x64, 64 GB RAM.
I bought the Rhino 7 update in the meantime, since I have a job coming up that can use some of the new features. Anything special I need to do? Drivers are current, setup works with all other renderers…?
I don’t follow you? I thought Brian was saying that it’s fixed in the latest Service Release Candidate?
I have Rhino 7 SR5 2021-3-9 (Rhino 7, 7.5.21068.13001) installed - isn’t that the latest?
Ah - so it was the other bug.
Thanks.
I was trying the link to the issue but it was gone already, so I somehow assumed it’s about the dual GPU rendering not working.
I think after closing and re-opening Rhino about 15 times to install plugins one by one (and before that going nuts for one or two hours finding out why the installed plugins don’t show up), my limit of Zen-patience for the day is spent.
This will be an “interesting” ride…
I’d be interested to hear the alternative.
I got my license today from my reseller and thought I’d install everything I either had with Rhino 5 or that sounded useful. Since the descriptions of the items are in many cases completely useless, I also installed some things to hopefully find out what they are.
I installed something like 15 items via the package manager in one go.
I re-started Rhino, expecting that all the installed things would be available afterwards, like it works in pretty much every software I’ve ever used.
They were not.
I was especially interested in the substance importer.
I looked through all menus and preferences and finally found the folder where the plugins are.
Everything looked fine, they were all there.
I restarted again, to no avail.
Then I manually installed the rhp in that substance folder in Rhino.
That worked.
Hm.
I went to the forum to see what I’m missing, I read this thread since there was a notification, thought I try the dual GPU rendering - didn’t work.
So I checked if there are new Nvidia drivers - there were, downloaded those and installed.
No change.
Had Rhino closed down for that and when starting it, I noticed a window that said it’s installing something that sounded like one of those plugins I installed with the package manager before.
Hmmmmm…
No, that can’t be…
Closed and re-opend Rhino and the next item was installed.
Looking completely flabbergasted at my screen for a minute or two.
Are you serious?
Spoke a couple of mantras and gave into the unavoidable.
I’m a leave in the wind…
And then I sat there for a while just closing and opening Rhino.
Each time a different plugin was installed.
This is my first day with my new license of Rhino 7.
Interesting times ahead.
I don’t know who comes up with that stuff but Rhino is a bit like studying Zen.
You get continually confronted with very confusing things that seem to make no sense at all.
And over time, you may or may not get enlightened.
Or get mad.
