Hi, I wonder when rhino 6 will be released? how about the pricing? if you already have rhino5 license, do we have to pay full price for rhino 6?
also will rhino 6 come with another plug-in bundle like Maxwell or T-spline for extra discount?
there is no news or any beta testing for rhino 6, I hope Mcneel+teamm can give some clarification first for their future release, so we can plan our budget.
Iâve used Rhino since Rhino V1, so Iâve seen this line of inquiry before many times. McNeel just doesnât work that way. In the first place even if they have a good idea when V6 will be ready, they wonât admit it. Secondly, they have a policy of not setting any pricing until a few weeks before the product is actually available.
Historically, they have tried to keep the new versionâs price in the same ballpark as the previous one, and have previously maintained their educational and upgrade pricing. Like the banks say âprevious performance is no guarantee of future performanceâ (or something like that) 
any difficulties in upgrading to the new version based on your experience so far, buddy?
about upgrade pricing, may I know how much did you spend to upgrade from rhino 4 to rhino 5 last time?
I need to plan my budget as there are many other plug ins I need to consider (such as TSPLINE and Maxwell, obviously)
Rhino is cheaper compared to other 3D software like 3dsmax, however u need to buy extra plug in to make Rhino powerful, I wonder if Mcneel has ever offered special prices if let say you buy Rhino+other plug in at once.
I hv never used rhino previous version (rhino4) so I have no idea how the upgrading policy works.
thanks
Typically the upgrade price has been about 50% of the full license price. There are generally no upgrade bundles offered by McNeel, but some individual resellers might. Bundles with T-Splines are unlikely, as that is a Autodesk product, the McNeel reseller would need to be also an Autodesk reseller.
â Mitch
New versions have major additions and improvements, so there is a learning process to become familiar with them, but thereâs also a solid base of already familiar stuff. An experienced user of a previous version usually does not feel lost in the woods. Sometimes some users who upgrade soon after release have run into installation problems, but these (when they happen) are soon resolved. The upgrade process is pretty simple: you send more money to McNeel (or their dealer) and you get a license key for the new version. You download the file and install it. It installs alongside the old version so you can transition at your own pace. If you buy an upgrade the installer will check for the previous version and/or ask for the previous versionâs license key in addition to the new license key. In the past the license key came with a CD or DVD, but there has been talk recently about making version 6 download-only.
Past practice has been that at a certain time in the development of the new version beta software is made available to licensed users of the current version so they can try it out and provide feedback to the developers.
That is in fact already the case in some parts of the world and from some sources - and will be the general case worldwide (even for V5) within a few months.
âMitch
So thereâs nowhere left in the world that has potential Rhino customers who have slow, unreliable internet?
Maybe there will be an option for download or a physical product? That would cover the places with poor connections, but also keep the people happy who donât need a drawer full of DVDs.
I guess that creating/sending out a DVD will become the domain of the reseller as a value-added service⌠--Mitch
Thereâs lots of places with slow or no internet. But if you already pay for fast internet, thereâs no reason to pay for a physical disc you have no use for. (My machine doesât even have any drive with a spinning disk, removable or not.)
Every large company that moved to âdownload onlyâ, actually moved to âdownload first, optional physical copy at extra costâ. And even if the original software manufacturer doesnât provide physical copies, your local dealer will be more than happy to charge a few extra bucks for a DVD.
Edit: This forum really needs a live update feature, so I can stop posting stuff that Mitch already answered⌠seconds ago.
Of course for Rhino enthusiasts itâs been more or less a âdownload onlyâ product since Day 1, having to collect the CD key from a box in the mail has just been a temporary nuisance to be able to download the latest SR candidate. It is an overdue switch.
I have fast internet - Iâm happy with downloading. Iâm sure dealer DVDâs is one way to go. Seems to me that in this day and age an SD card from Seattle would be pretty good too. And SD cards have computers in them that could be used for copy protection and pre-installation license key collection.
someone should do a studyâŚ
what takes more time
A- downloading rhino on a poor connection
B- have rhino dvd sent via mail
When rhino 6 italian? For student 
What kind of news?