Starting Rhino

When Rhino installs, a shortcut icon is saved to your desktop. Other options for opening Rhino involve customizing or creating new shortcuts, using schemes, and starting Rhino in safe mode.

Command-line parameters

Command-line parameters can be used when launching Rhino from Windows command prompt.

/<schemename>

Opens Rhino in different work environments.

To save schemes

  1. Make a Windows desktop shortcut to Rhino like this:
    "C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\System\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 settings in
    %AppData%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\settings\settings-Scheme__WhiteBackground.xml
  4. Make another shortcut:
    "C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\System\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 settings in:
    %AppData%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\settings\settings-Scheme__BlackBackground.xml
The scheme saves the following settings:

/nosplash

Hides the splash screen when Rhino starts. View the splash screen with the About command

To hide splash screen when Rhino starts

/safemode

Starts Rhino in safe mode without OpenGL or third-party plug-ins. Safe mode is a method of opening Rhino with features disabled that might be the cause of crashing.

Safe mode is not designed to be a working mode – it is a troubleshooting, problem solving mode.

Use safe mode if Rhino crashes immediately on starting, crashes when shading, or crashes when running commands that are part of a plug-in. Please report all problems crashing Rhino to the Rhino development team.

If you launch Rhino in safe mode, the following items will be disabled:

To open Rhino in safe mode

Get technical support:

/notemplate

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

/language=<langid>

Sets 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

1049

Russian-Russia

ru-ru

1251

1034

Spanish - Spain

es-es

1252

/runscript="<script>"

Run a script at startup.

To run a script file from Rhino

"C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\System\Rhino.exe" /nosplash /runscript="-_RunPythonScript D:\Documents\MyScript.py"

If the path to the Python script file contains spaces, you can use parenthesis to encompass the path string:

..."-_RunPythonScript (D:\My Documents\My Script.py)"

modelname.3dm

The path and name of a model file to open.

To open model from Rhino shortcut

Make a Windows desktop shortcut to Rhino like this:

"C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\System\Rhino.exe" modelname.3dm

See also

Open

Opens an existing model file.

Work with files

 

 

 

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