Yeah, that is my constant fear since Autodesk killed off the plug-in.
It was my understanding, that to install Shape Modeling authorization would be needed and therefore a new install of an existing license would be impossible.
But the Autodesk support page I cited above seems to suggest otherwise…
Granted it is worded quite ambigiously.
My SSD on my workstation went bad a couple of days ago.
I have all my files on a NAS so no problems from that perspective.
My main fear is that this SSD is the last system I installed Shape Modeling on, so I am now having it examined by a data restore professional to make a bootable clone of the system drive.
I still have my old workstation though and incredibly, after not using it for a couple of years, Rhino 5 with AD Shape Modeling is still working on it, so I will have a somewhat awkward solution if it will not run on my main computer anymore.