{"id":440,"date":"2010-05-12T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/440-modeling-in-cinema-4d-for-shapeways.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:55:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:55:24","slug":"modeling-in-cinema-4d-for-shapeways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/modeling-in-cinema-4d-for-shapeways","title":{"rendered":"Modeling in Cinema 4d for Shapeways"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Quick Tutorial Preparing Cinema 4D Files for Shapeways<\/b><\/p>\n

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Cinema 4D<\/a> is a modeling, animation and rendering package developed by German based company Maxon. It is capable of procedural and polygonal sub-divisional modeling, animating, lighting, texturing and rendering. Cinema 4D was first released in 1993 for the Amiga<\/a>. It has been used for architectural and engineering visualizations as well as in games and feature films such as  and check out their show reel<\/a> of (very) commercial work.<\/p>\n

A quick tutorial<\/p>\n

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  1. Set Cinema 4D Preferences to use Millimeters<\/b><\/li>\n
  2. Create geometry without using Boolean <\/b>(seems like Booleans never work once translated to VRML but they may work with STL)<\/li>\n
  3. For the example above I created a, Objects>Text Spline Primitive of the word ‘Shapeways’<\/li>\n
  4. I then made an Objects>Nurbs>Extrude Nurbs<\/li>\n
  5. In the Object window on the right side of the screen you then drag the Text Spline onto the Extrude Nurbs icon to make the spline into a 3D object <\/li>\n
  6. I then made a cube with Objects>Primitive>Cube then Functions>Make Editable then scaled to fit behind the text<\/li>\n
  7. Make your geometry a single object<\/b>, the Objects>Modeling>Connect Object<\/li>\n
  8. Drag the elements you want to connect into Connect Object icon using the Object window to the right of the screen.<\/li>\n
  9. Keep polygon count less than 100,000 and it must be less than 500,000<\/li>\n
  10. Since version 11, if you have Advanced Renderer you can check Render>Cineman>Select non-Manifold edges<\/b><\/li>\n
  11. Export at VRML 2 with the scale set to 1000<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This brings the models in as centimeters, i.e. 100 mm = 10 cm and in
    \nCinema 4D the object is scaled at a reasonable size so it’s easy to work
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    Step 7. Objects>Modeling>Connect Object<\/p>\n

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    Step 8. Elements connected together<\/p>\n<\/p>\n


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