Error saving personal presets

MiguelC

Title: [BUG] Entities - Display color mismatch

Version / Build: 1.0.3.33161
Rhino Version / Build: Rhino 7.36.23346
System: Windows 11
Description: I've imported model type fbx and use it as entities. I created an ecosystems with those model that I textured in rhino, when I want to save my personal presets, I got an error message.
I'm using octane as rendering and everything works perfectly except I can't save Any new presets. I just did it once nut without the options of include Model and include texture...which is not very useful.

D-W

MiguelC Interesting, the thing here is that when RN wants to save preset with models it opens a new Rhino behind the scenes due to very cumbersome file I/O on the API side, I asked McNeel many times to do something about it. Currently, the only reasonable way to export models is to open a new Rhino, copy and paste Entity contents, and save the file - this whole process is just automated by RN when you export an ecosystem with models.

Regarding the error that occurred in your case, it looks like Rhino struggles to launch behind the scenes, the showstopper seems to be on McNeel's side "Échec de l'Exécution du Serveur", or maybe this is some faulty key in your registry thing. You can check using "regedit" if you have such path "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Rhino.Application.7\CLSID" with the GUID which is on the error report, if this is ok then next would be asking on the McNeel forum why it fails to run remotely on Win11.

MiguelC

Thanks for your quick reply.
"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Rhino.Application.7\CLSID" with the GUID which is on the error report : I Got this number on my regedit, so I will open the discussion on on the McNeel forum...I have a zoo Licence on my machine, do you think could be the problem to launch behind the scenes...I will let you know if I have an answers from them.

D-W

MiguelC Hmm, I don't know if ZOO is responsible for this but, there is a small chance that ZOO thinks this is a new seat for some reason (though it shouldn't as it's launched on the same PC). Maybe Rhino as an automation process has an independent check of the license, so if all seats are used then the next instance isn't allowed(?)...

RN does it this way: Opens new Rhino and copies used blocks one by one into new files and saves them to the .presetfilename folder as a satellite folder for presetfilename.rnp, and if automatic export is successful RN auto imports those *.3dm files as *.rnp file allows putting a relative path in it to make auto import possible. You can always check the installation folder, there is an App folder with presetScheme.xml where you can inspect the structure of the preset and learn how to handle *.3dm files linking.

Sidenote: The best experience for inspecting presetScheme.xml will be when using a text editor that resolves syntax and comments, in eg. Notepad++ or VS Code.

[EDIT]: I found also hints here however I still second that the best would be to ask McNeel about it.

MiguelC

For your information, I did open a second rhino 7 and copy-paste my entities inside and successfully saved my presets.....Thnaks for your advice....will ask to Mc Neel to look at this.