Open

The Open command opens an existing Rhino or other supported format file.

Steps

1. Specify a file type.
2. Select or type a file name.
3. Click Open.

Note

When Rhino opens a non-3dm model, the title bar reflects the name of the model that was opened. When the model is saved for the first time, this model name is entered as the file name.
When Rhino reads polygon mesh formats, the polygon mesh objects in the original file are not converted to NURBS objects; they remain polygon meshes in Rhino; they are not converted to NURBS objects.

Open Rhino With Shortcut

Using shortcuts, you can open Rhino using a number of options.

Options

/<schemename>

Opens with the saved scheme.

/nosplash

Suppress splash screen. View the splash screen with the About command.

/safemode

Starts Rhino in safe mode without OpenGL or third-party plug-ins.

/notemplate

Start Rhino with a default model based on hard-coded defaults.

/language=<langid>

Set the language. For example, /language=1041 starts in Japanese, /language=1033 starts in English, etc.

LCID

NAME

ABBR

CODEPAGE

1028

Chinese - Taiwan

zh-tw

950

2052

Chinese - China

zh-cn

936

1029

Czech

cs-cz

1250

1033

English - United States

en-us

1252

1036

French - France

fr-fr

1252

1031

German - Germany

de-de

1252

1040

Italian - Italy

it-it

1252

1041

Japanese

ja-jp

932

1042

Korean

ko-kr

949

1045

Polish

pl-pl

1250

1034

Spanish - Spain

es-es

1252

/runscript="<script>"

Run a script at startup.

modelname.3dm

The path and name of a model to open.

Schemes

Save and restore Rhino workspace settings. The scheme saves the following settings:

Command defaults
Dialog box positions
All settings in the Rhino Options pages such as aliases, appearance and colors settings, mouse settings, render settings, shortcut keys
Recently-used file list
Toolbar layout

To save schemes

1. Make a Windows desktop shortcut to Rhino like this:

"C:/Program Files/Rhino.exe" /scheme="WhiteBackground"

2. Set up Rhino with your white background colors and exit.
3. Start Rhino from this shortcut.

Rhino will find and store all it's settings in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/McNeel/Rhinoceros/5.0/Scheme: WhiteBackground/...

4. Make another shortcut:

"C:/Program Files/Rhino.exe" /scheme="BlackBackground"

5. Set up Rhino with your black background colors and exit.
6. Start Rhino from this shortcut.

Rhino will find and store all it's settings in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/McNeel/Rhinoceros/5.0/Scheme: BlackBackground/...

See also

Work with files

Index of import/export file types


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