Rhino 8 evaluation after the 90-day trial expires?

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I have Rhino 8 evaluation whose 90-day trial period expired a couple of months ago. According to the downloading page (see the link below), Rhino 8 evaluation is supposed to work with limited functionality (no saving and plug-ins will stop working) after the trial period. However, the program will not start and requires a license key. I’m still logged in my account for Rhino 7, so the only option that the pop-up window of Rhino 8 gives me is to either log off or buy a license.

https://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino-for-windows/evaluation/

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I reach to the point where I’m asked to enter my license and then I’m given the option to run Rhino 8 without saving. At that point a new pop-up window appears called “Validate your Rhinoceros 8 license”, asking for my name, address and phone number, even though I’m already logged in into my account. :slight_smile: If I try to skip that, the window freezes.

After several attempts the aforementioned window finally loaded, opened my Internet browser and I had to log in again into my account. Once I did that, a new pop-up window appeared (the same that shows up initially) claiming the following:

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Any help? I just wanted to try some tools of the latest Rhino 8 evaluation to compare with Rhino 7 and see if there are some meaningful improvements. :slight_smile:

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There was another thread on this a few days ago. I think the answer was that you need a local license, not a Cloud Zoo one…

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Thank you! I just tried that, but I can’t figure out how to change my license type. :slight_smile: At least I can’t see any button that swaps the license to local.

Does anybody know a page where I can read a tutorial how to change the license type?

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I found the other thread. This may help: Rhino 8 Doesn't Open After Trial License Expires - #6 by bigpiper246

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Not sure what’s wrong, but that solution will not work here. There is no option called “stand-alone”. :slight_smile:

The problem is that I can’t switch my license from Cloud Zoo to local, because the Zoo server can’t connect automatically.

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When I enter my license key, the following message appears:

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Looks like that is your R7 licence? You need to be doing this with your R8 eval licence.

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That’s the LAN Zoo, not the cloud zoo. Connect to your Rhino account and go to licenses…

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How to connect to that? Via the website maybe?

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Yes, or accounts.rhino3d.com

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Thank you! I think that I found something. Should I click on that red button?

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Edit: I just removed the license for Rhino 8 evaluation that way.

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OK, I think that it’s all set now. I was able to run Rhino 8 evaluation again. Thank you for our time to both of you! :slight_smile:

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I have the exact same problem. I removed my Rhino 8 evaluation (expired) license from my account but I can’t make Rhino 8 to open either.

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Same window open and from here I can’t go anywhere but on a request of a valid license.
Any clue of what’s wrong?

Please help…

PS: of course I have a regular Rhino 7 Licence on my account, that I use through Cloud Zoo

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How did you solve ?! I have the same problem but deleting my expired Rhino 8 license from my account desn’t work…

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Ok, after deleting rhino 8 expired license from my account, I tried the re-installation of Rhino 8 selecting “Local License”. What I got is this error message:

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(I transate)
“Installation failed with error code: 0
Keep this window open and contact McNeel support or read the page Resolution of problems connected with installation program It could be necessary to send this Registry file
Restart this computer to complete installation”

PS: the page suggested is at this address:
https://www.rhino3d.com/go/install-troubleshoot-rhino-8?exit_code=0&package_id=&bundle_version=8.14.24345.15001
…and gives a nice “404 - Page not found” error

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The only solution to run Rhino 8 evaluation again was to convert my Rhino 7 commercial license from local to Cloud Zoo one, meaning it needs to connect to internet from time to time in order to be able to run Rhino 7. This means that if I can’t connect my PC to an internet connection for a long period of time, then Rhino 7 will stop working at some time until the license is verified again.
The positive aspect of the Cloud Zoo is that the license can be transferred from my desktop PC to my laptop easily when I’m on a trip.

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Thank you @Rhino_Bulgaria

the problem is that I am already managing my Rhino 7 license via Cloud Zoo !
so maybe the problem here is different. At this point I maybe need some @Helvetosaur idea…

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