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Planning is created as usual with ArchiCAD’s established CAD tools. As soon as the first designs are in place, the project can be exported to Cinema 4D. There, the Material eXchange plug-in replaces the ArchiCAD colors with photorealistic Cinema 4D materials with a single click. After adding decorative objects from the libraries available for Cinema 4D, an appealing visualization is already available. The ArchiCAD eXchange package requires at least ArchiCAD 8.1 and Cinema 4D 8.5 and includes all required plug-ins as well as the ArchiTextures material library for Cinema 4D. It is available now at a price of 99 euros.
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