{"id":30012,"date":"2017-03-28T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=30012"},"modified":"2017-05-22T17:58:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T21:58:43","slug":"tutorial-tuesday-10-modeling-3d-printing-cinema-4d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/tutorial-tuesday-10-modeling-3d-printing-cinema-4d","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial Tuesday 10: Modeling for 3D Printing with Cinema 4D"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cinema 4D<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is a powerful, professional\u00a0modeling software program that can be used for 3D animations, motion graphics, and generating 3D effects. It’s\u00a0also fairly intuitive, and can be used to create and export models suitable for 3D printing. Already using Cinema 4D? This post will help you figure out how to\u00a0prepare your models for exporting to STL or VRML format for 3D printing. Or, if you’re new to Cinema 4D and\u00a0want to learn the basics, we’ll start at the beginning with some beginner tutorials.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Getting Started with Cinema 4D<\/h3>\n

For a quick overview of how Cinema 4D works, check out the walkthough video <\/span>Intro to 3D printing with Cinema 4D<\/span><\/a> from <\/span>The Hive<\/span><\/a>. This screencast\u00a0takes you quickly\u00a0through the creation of a 3D-printable alien tentacle-skull design from scratch in Cinema 4D, and along the way shows you how to handle Boolean operations, work with NURBS modeling, import images from Illustrator, and prepare your model for exporting to STL. <\/span><\/p>\n