topic Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11 in Collaboration with other software

!Restored: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:01:12 GMT

anybody can tell me where can i obtain the plugins for Cinema 4D 10.5 for work with Archicad 11 ? also where is the correct place (i mean folders) to put these plugins ?
thank you in advance

Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:10:28 GMT

Pendu wrote:
anybody can tell me where can i obtain the plugins for Cinema 4D 10.5 for work with Archicad 11 ? also where is the correct place (i mean folders) to put these plugins ?
thank you in advance

Hi,

I've downloaded them from here
http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/solutions/cinema4d_download.html
but I couldn't get them to work. When I go to "Create New Object With Cinema 4D" (from 3D window), C4D is launched, but no data exchange is made (and the "Plugins" menu doesn't contain any ArchiCAD reference).
Maybe someone else knows something about this?

Cheers.

Adrian Tudoreanu

Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:06:11 GMT

Have you tried selecting an object within the perspective window and then 'edit object in c4d' from the plug-in selection. It works for me.
I tried opening c4d from the floor plan and also got nothing!!

Also there is a sperate plug-in for the cinima 4d side of things... have you installed both the c4d plug and the archicad plug?

Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

owen — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:57:20 GMT

The instructions for installation on the Graphisoft site are wrong.

http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/solutions/cinema4d_download.html

Step 3 should read:

3. Download and uncompress the Cinema 4D 10 plug-in to your MAXON\CINEMA 4D R10\plugins folder

Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

Greg Kmethy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:52:37 GMT

Thanks for the heads up, we corrected it.

Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:35:58 GMT

Just one question: I saw on maxon website that you can save inside ArchiCAD cinema file(save as). A've instaled plugin below, but, i don't have that option?! But i have option to edit something in cinema.

Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

owen — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:26:43 GMT

Are you refering to this?:

http://www.maxon.net/pages/solutions/archicad/archicad_e.html

This is talking about the Material Exchange plugin, which is different to the Maxonform plugin you seem to be talking about (it gives option to 'Send back to ArchiCAD')

The Material Exchanger is a 1-way plugin to map materials applied in Cinema to ArchiCAD materials. Using this you can simply export updated geometry out of ArchiCAD and the plugin does all the time-consuming work of re-applying the materials (near instantaneously). There is no functionality to send anything back to ArchiCAD.

As far as I am aware you cannot download this plugin from the Maxon site - only updates. You need the original plugin installer which came on the Cinema 4D Architecture Bundle CD.

Maxonform enables you to edit/create new elements within Cinema4D and send them back to ArchiCAD as a GDL object. It is activated from within ArchiCAD. There are two plugins you need to install - one for each application. It sounds like you have only installed the Cinema part.

Maxonform is not supported anywhere on the Maxon site - refer to the links above for Graphisofts instructions.

Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:14:04 GMT

this is what i had in mind:
http://www.maxon.net/pages/solutions/archicad/images/exchange.jpg

there is even a video about that, i'll find it latter.

Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:45:19 GMT

http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/editions/architecture/work_mov.html

Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

owen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:18:51 GMT

WhiteMan wrote:
...But i have option to edit something in cinema.

OK this is what had me confused - is this option appearing in ArchiCAD? Sounds like Maxonform, the Exchange plugin only adds a file format (Cinema4D - i.e .AC4D) to the Save As dialog.

The Exchange plugin installs to Cinema4D and then you need to move a couple of files in places there into your ArchiCAD Add-Ons folder. They will be in a folder like:

/Applications/MAXON/CINEMA 4D R10/Exchange Plugins/ArchiCAD 10/MacIntel

HTH

Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:08:11 GMT

yes, it is appearing in ArchiCAD(design>design extras). That is what i need, to add cinama's file format in save as dialog in ArchiCAD!!
I've installed both plugins from http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/solutions/cinema4d_download.html
Is there something more that i need to install? Btw, i don't have any archicad folder in my Exchange Plugins.

Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

owen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:13:09 GMT

Those are the Maxonform plugins.

The Architecture Exchange plugin installer can only be found on the CD you get with Cinema4D as part of the Architecture Bundle (C4D+Advanced Render+Sketch & Toon). I'm not sure if you can buy the Exchange plugin separately if you already own C4D .. depends on your reseller

Re: Cinema 4D plugins for AC11

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