Starting Rhino in Windows | Rhino 3-D modeling

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 arguments

/<schemename>

Opens Rhino in different work environments.

To save schemes

Make a Windows desktop shortcut to Rhino like this:
"C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\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\6.0\settings\settings-Scheme__WhiteBackground.xml
Make another shortcut:
"C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\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\6.0\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 6\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 6, select Rhino 6 in Safe Mode.
This shortcut runs:
"C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\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

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.

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 6\System\Rhino.exe" modelname.3dm

Starting Rhino

Command-line arguments

/<schemename>

To save schemes

The scheme saves the following settings:

/nosplash

To hide splash screen when Rhino starts

/safemode

To open Rhino in safe mode

Get technical support:

/notemplate

/language=<langid>

/runscript="<script>"

modelname.3dm

To open model from Rhino shortcut

See also

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