Licensing · Guide

Changing Your Licensing Method

Move a Rhino license between a single computer, a LAN Zoo, and the Cloud Zoo by removing it from where it is now and adding it to its new location.

Changing Your Licensing Method

You can license Rhino in three ways:

  • Cloud Zoo: shared through your Rhino account, personally or with a team
  • LAN Zoo: shared on your local area network
  • Single computer: locked to one computer

See Choosing the best license management method to learn more about these options.

Change Your Licensing Method

  1. Remove your license from its current location (see below).
  2. Add your license to its new location: a different computer, the LAN Zoo, or the Cloud Zoo. See Choosing the best license management method for help adding it.

Remove a Single-Computer License

  1. Connect your computer to the internet.
  2. Start Rhino, then open its settings:
    • Windows: from the Tools menu, click Options.
    • Mac: from the Rhino 8 or Rhino 7 menu (Rhinoceros in Rhino 6), click Settings.
  3. Click Licenses.
  4. Click Change your license key.
  5. Click Options.
  6. Click Remove license.
On Windows, uninstalling Rhino also returns a single-computer license validation.

Remove a License from the LAN Zoo

  1. Connect the LAN Zoo server to the internet.
  2. On the LAN Zoo server, open Zoo Administrator (requires administrator permissions).
  3. Select the license to remove.
  4. Click the X button in the toolbar.

The license can now be used somewhere else.

Remove a License from Your Rhino Account

  1. Go to the Rhino Accounts licenses page and log in if necessary.
  2. In the Personal licenses section, click your name.
  3. Click the license name.
  4. Click the edition type.
  5. Click Remove From Cloud Zoo.

The license can now be used somewhere else.

Remove a License from a Cloud Zoo Team

You must be the team owner or a team admin.

  1. Go to the Rhino Accounts licenses page and log in if necessary.
  2. Click the name of the team that has the license.
  3. Click the license name.
  4. Click the edition type.
  5. Click Remove From Cloud Zoo.

The license can now be used somewhere else.