DWG Import

CINEMA 4D Release 10.5 continues to open new doors to the architectural visualization and engineering communities with the addition of DWG import. Widely used by AutoCAD users and the CAD community as a whole, the DWG format offers an outstanding means of importing CAD drawings into CINEMA 4D for visualization.

The robust DWG import supports not only geometry. Layers (with colors) and object attributes such as visibility are also supported. Blocks and block references within the DWG file are represented in CINEMA 4D as object groups and instances, so the basic project structure is retained.

The importer also supports other DWG object types, including line, arc, circle, ellipse, elliptical arc, polyline, 2D polyline, 3D polyline, face, polyface mesh and polygon mesh. Colors (RGB and indices) within the DWG file are imported as materials, and the ByLayer and ByBlock settings are taken into account on import. Users also have the opportunity to define the scale and curve subdivision factors used in the import.