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
- Make a Windows desktop shortcut to Rhino like this:
"C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\System\Rhino.exe" /scheme="WhiteBackground" - Set up Rhino with your white background colors and exit.
- Start Rhino from this shortcut.
Rhino will find and store all settings in
%AppData%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\settings\settings-Scheme__WhiteBackground.xml - Make another shortcut:
"C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\System\Rhino.exe" /scheme="BlackBackground" - Set up Rhino with your black background colors and exit.
- Start Rhino from this shortcut.
Rhino will find and store all settings in:
%AppData%\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\settings\settings-Scheme__BlackBackground.xml
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
/nosplash
Hides the splash screen when Rhino starts. View the splash screen with the About command
To hide splash screen when Rhino starts
- Make a Windows desktop shortcut to Rhino like this:
"C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\System\Rhino.exe" /nosplash
/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:
- Any start-up commands listed in General Options.
- Command line scripts specified by the "/runscript" argument.
- All plug-ins.
- Templates.
- OpenGL shading.
To open Rhino in safe mode
- On the Windows Start button, under Rhino 8, select Rhino 8 in Safe Mode.
This shortcut runs:
"C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\System\Rhino.exe" /safemode
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 8\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.
