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Downloading and installing Rhino 6 with Grasshopper

From the course: Learning Grasshopper

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Downloading and installing Rhino 6 with Grasshopper

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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll take a look at downloading and installing the Rhinoceros 3D modeling program which includes the Grasshopper plugin. To get started, I have taken my browser and navigated to rhino3d.com. From here, let's go ahead and click on the download link in the top menu bar. And I can see the downloads page is divided into two columns. I have links on the left for Windows and links on the right for Mac. The install process is almost identical in either OS. I happen to be working in Windows so I'll pay more attention to the links on the left. And starting in version six, Rhinoceros began packaging the Grasshopper plugin inside of its installer. So I can see right now I have options to download Rhino version seven or over here in the archives Rhino version six. So in this case, I'll work on seven since that's the latest version. So let's just click here and we'll get a 90 day evaluation version of Rhino. So I'm being prompted to enter my email address, go ahead and click Next. And this will send me an email which contains a download link and any licensing information that I'll need to finish the install. So I've already gone ahead and gone into my email, downloaded that installer and I can see it here in my Downloads folder. So let's go ahead and double click here, start the install and I'll just work through the prompts. So I'll click Install Now, give permission to the installer, and it looks like we're all set. I'll go ahead and close out the installer and I can see on my desktop, there's a shortcut icon to launch Rhino 7. Let's go ahead and double click and make sure we get the licensing info set up. Okay, I just need to click and agree to the user terms. Now here I get several different options for how to set up my license. I can enter one manually or in this case, I think I'll go ahead and log into Rhino's license server and use their online license manager. Okay, we've got Rhino installed and from the command line we can launch Grasshopper by simply typing Grasshopper, and we're ready to roll.

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