Release Rhino Team license

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hello,

The company I work for bought one Rhino 8 Commercial “floating” license. For Windows.
Can I release the license just by closing Rhino 8?

I tried this approach - just close Rhino 8. However other colleague who is using the same Rhino 8 license said that - on his side, it is shown that I am still using the license.

So the only way I am successfully releasing the license at the moment is: run _Logout command, and then close Rhino 8.
However, this requires that each time when I want to use Rhino 8 again, I have to go through the Login process:

  • A login dialog appears and I need to enter my email address.
  • This sends “Confirm login” email, where I have to click on a link inside that email.
  • Login dialog then changes to “License found”, and I have to click on a link, which proceeds to open Rhino 8.

I find this process slightly tiring.

Is there any other way for me to release Rhino 8 license, which would prevent me from login-in each time I run Rhino 8?

Interestingly the other colleague just closes his Rhino 8, and the license is immediately released.
But he created the Rhino Team, and he is the one who sent me an invitation to Rhino Team license.
So he has the status of a Rhino Team owner/administrator.

Does this mean that a license of a Team owner is always automatically released when he closes Rhino 8?
And all other non-owner users: have to always go through the _Logout and afterwards the login process?

I assume the license is pulled via Cloud Zoo, and not LAN Zoo - because it asks me to log in to my Rhino account as a prerequisite to use the license.

Thank you for the assistance.

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the rhino license hangs around for about 10-15 min when a user closes it to make sure you aren’t simply closing rhino and then reopening it (for instance opening one project after closing another)

if you need it to let go immediately, logout is the only current option.

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Hi @theoutside ,
Thank you very much for the quick response!

It seems our problem was Rhino-Inside. I apologize for not being clear enough.
So just closing Rhino 8 - releases the license, in the time frame you mentioned.
Closing Rhino 8, which has been ran as Rhino-Inside in Revit does not.
For now it seems this can not be fixed without closing Revit itself as well:

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Hi Djordje -

Note that this is something that Autodesk would need to “fix”.
You’d have to check with them to see if they are aware of such request.
-wim