Almost every major industry that is manufacturing sophisticated physical products uses computer aided styling (CAS) or design (CAD) in at least some steps of its development. Living in the digital age, one could assume that using this engineering output to create media products shouldn’t pose too much of a challenge. Sadly, that is only true if you know your way around some common pitfalls and peculiarities of the engineering universe.
Maxon is releasing an eXchange plug-in that allows all relevant objects, object classes, lights, materials and cameras in a project to be exported from Graphisoft ArchiCAD to Cinema 4D.