Tag: rhinoceros plug-in

Protecting Rhinoceros plugins with software licensing

Rhinoceros® (aka Rhino 3D) is a powerful computer graphics and CAD application. It’s also quite extensible as it allows developers to create their own plug-ins and add-ons. The aim of this post is to give you quick way of getting started with software licensing in your application, with focus on .NET.

One way of developing Rhino 3D applications is using Visual Studio. To add a simple key verification mechanism, only three steps are necessary:

  1. Right click on your project in the Solution Explorer and click on Manage NuGet Packages.
  2. Search for Cryptolens.Licensing and install it (for certain Rhino versions, please see this page).
  3. Add the code-snippet form this page in the code where the plugin loads for the first time.

You can know create a license key in the Cryptolens dashboard to test that the key verification code works. That should be it! If you would have any questions, please feel free to reach out.


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