My recovery expert tried to make a copy of my 2TB Samsung SSD, but the drive had around 45000 read errors and for now didn’t result in a bootable copy.
He now changed equipment (hardware? software? I have no idea) and is still hopeful to recover my drive completely.
We’ll see. This guy worked wonders on a corrupted NAS that he completely recovered some time ago, so from what I can tell he knows what he is doing.
This is why it’s worth trying also Spinrite (if isn’t tried already) since Spinrite tries to read data in several different ways if a read fails, aso.
Hope your data gets recovered.
//Rolf
Hi Norbert, maybe it is possible to convert that old workstation to a Virtual Maschine and therefore keep the License “alive” even when the hardware fails at some point… obvously the performance will be pretty bad, but better then losing it.
Not sure if this can actually work, but wanted to try since a long time, I also have an old Maschine with some license tied to it- and i fear the day when it stops working 
Does anyone here have experience with converting to VM?
I’ve done this before, not to preserve VSR though. Long time ago, I don’t remember which application it was I wanted to preserve, but I recall that some other apps didn’t accept the new environment (I think it was the network device MAC adress that differed in VMWare). Things like that.
Only way to know is to try.
What more is that Rhino has to work well from a VM. Sometimes the graphic side isn’t well supported. Should be ok in newer version of VMware though.
//Rolf
Wouldn’t a system backup image create a bootable version of my system and all applications and files on my system drive?
And this should work on new drives too, in case my harddrive dies.
Or am I wrong here?
It should work technically, yes. But some applications validate their licenses against the hardware, like a MAC address of a Network card or the harddisk/drive it was installed and activated on.
This is where you can run into problems when cloning a system onto another disk or VM.
In short: Some applications may no longer work due to invalidated licenses. This is why you would have to try it top know for sure what works and what doesn’t work.
//Rolf
I am happy to report that, as of yesterday, October 23, 2024 I emailed Autodesk Support for a new activation code for my installations of Autodesk Shape Modeling Plug-In and Autodesk Realtime Renderer Plug-In (both for Rhino 5) using my existing software license after having transferred my operating system and all software to a new machine and I received the activation codes within hours of my request.
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This is great news.
Did you email them directly or through their website?
This also somewhat rectifies the whole story about how Autodesk handled the axing auf ShapeModeling.
I can perfectly understand that they decide to not further develop a piece of software for whatever reason they see fit, I only was pi**ed off that I could potentially loose access to the use of my permant license.
So if this works then: “You did the right thing, Autodesk”
Whaaaaa??? This is amazing news. That’s like, the first good thing I’ve heard Autodesk doing in a very very long time.
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Sorry for the delayed reply, Norbert, I don’t check in here often. My point of contact at Autodesk is David.Lau@Autodesk.com. Be sure to jump through the hoops of obtaining a “serial number” and a “product key” and a “request code” from your installation of the software beforehand. You get these items by attempting the offline activation method. Good luck.
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Any news? Will “Rhino 9” take any suggestions? At least the “MatchSrf” command like VSR tools.
All those moments will be lost in time,
like tears in rain.
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we work for you, so yes, we will always take suggestions. matchsrf is something we are actively working on.
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Hi Kyle, great to hear there is active development going on for that tool!
Any specific plans for V9 you might share? 
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Just a prediction:
G2 continuity with 3 options:
Imagine being able to match individual control points instead of the entire surface edge… Dreams come true.
Two separate options for “Match target isocurve” will easily fix the current ultra mega flawed single common option that matches U and V directions simultaneously…
These suggestions were posted in various topics since the Rhino 5 time…
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I humbly beg your pardon.
Now I’m sad for doubting. I can’t wait to try out the new features!
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everything goes into the v9 wip which you can get here-
not much to share just yet, but you are welcome to get it and follow along as things develop and get added.
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Regarding the new Static zebra in Rhino 9, could someone capture a nice video where all the new options are shown and the way they affect the analyzed surfaces?
I would like to know whether the Static zebra lets the user set his/her own custom colours (set by RGB code or sliders), number of colours, and arrangement (which colour is next to the other colous). For example, here is how the Static zebra looked like in VSR for Rhino 5:
It used the following 8 colours (at least when I extract their RGB codes with a graphics program from this old screenshot):
0, 50, 250
136, 0, 250
250, 0, 175
250, 11, 0
250, 200, 0
113, 252, 0
0, 250, 75
0, 240, 252
While they provide a nice variety, as a colour blind person I have some trouble with visually separating some of the nearby colours, so the ability to set custom colours is welcome. also, think about the option to add darker thin lines to distinguish the main colours of the light lines.
The demo of the “Scan and solve” plug-in years ago used these colours instead, separated by thin darker lines to distinguish them better:
My custom display mode called “Light lines” uses this image as an environment map:
lightlines.ini (13.5 KB)
They appear lighter in the viewport:
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