archicad exchange plugin

[NOOXY]

Ok so i got the archicad exchange plugin for cinema4d but it only installs if i have version 8.5 of cinema4d...i'm sooooooo broken down wiated so long to get it.

 

Is this plugin just for 8.5 or there is a seperate arhicad exchange plugin for C4D 9.0..can smeone help me with this one.

 

How can i install this plugin???

nooxy

[NOOXY]

I've got teh exchange working but now i'm confused when i try to apply c4d materials to it it come out smooth when the textures are aplied with the uvw mapping...does it have to be projected as a cubicle...which i think looks weird at times on the object...any solutions or reasons are welcomed please..

 

 

i have attached a sample

nooxy

[Wokka]

Danny,

For me the model doesn't have any texture assosciated with it from ArchiCad. This is OK for my workflow as I use completely different materials in C4D and rarely worry about a texture in ArchiCad as any rendering is going to be in C4D.

What bugs me though is that the UVW co-ordinates for roof is totally lost as they become cubic projections. We then have to go back to the bad old days of Artlantis 1 and either reassign the selection in C4D (which has to be done every time you update your model!!) or have two different material assigned to roof planes projected from different directions.

Does anyone else find this annoying or have a better workaround?

 

Cheers

[NOOXY]

well i thought that this exchange will be a "gold plugin" very valuable but it seems to be making things a lil more annoying..Imo ..it's easire just saving my archicad models as lightwave objects and then retexture them with C4D better quality textures...

 

To those who use the archicad exchange..is it a worthwhile plugin..?

[Wokka]

Danny,

It is still a worthwhile plugin as if (when) the client wants changes, you don't need to reassign textures etc in C4D. The back and forth compatibilty is pretty good, just those roofs annoy me.

Cheers

[NOOXY]

Why don't the uvw projection works on the models?

 

Which in your opinion is the best method to import in C4d using the archexchange...class or material method?

 

 

any solutions?

[Wokka]

With the exchange plugin, the roof materials are assigned using cubic geometry so the texture will only run in one direction for all the roofs with a particular material. I have to therefore assign roofs pitched in one direction a seperate texture to the roofs pitched in another direction OR reassign the material in C4D but that selection set is lost in any update you do.

 

I always exchange with materials as this is the easiest format to work with (for me) in C4D. (ie Not all walls are going to be the same material)

Cheers

[zkywalker]

I see that you have Archicad 10, but I can't find an eXchange plug-in that supports Archicad 10. Is there one??

[Wokka]

Looks like the forum software is too smart for it's own good!

That note was over a year ago when I only had R9 and the plugin worked great.

Still waiting (with R10 sitting idle on my desktop) for the upgrade!!?!?!

Maxon say they are working on it but won't give us a date, probably because they just released their own R10.

Let me know if/when you hear of the update release and I'll keep pestering them

Cheers

(C4D will stay 9.6 till I get an update-see below)

[ZFact]

Why don't the uvw projection works on the models?

 

Which in your opinion is the best method to import in C4d using the archexchange...class or material method?

 

 

any solutions?

 

 

I wonder is there a way of converting Vectorworks & Archicad

geometry to accept uvw texture mapping in C4D. I know there

is uvw texture tag in there but not sure what its use is. The

cubic method is pretty basic and doesnt work with teture

baking.

[gdrakakis]

Danny,

It is still a worthwhile plugin as if (when) the client wants changes, you don't need to reassign textures etc in C4D. The back and forth compatibilty is pretty good, just those roofs annoy me.

Cheers

 

if the roof isn't modified, then you can remove it from the archicad tag (don't delete it), merge the archicad model, delete the new roof polugons, and then drag again the roof polys.

this way you can keep all the material selections and you don't have to make them again.

i know that it's a workaround, but it works for me as long as you don't change the geometry of the roof.

cheers,

george

[Wokka]

Hi,

It's been some time since the updated plugin was promised. Has anyone heard anything?

[Wokka]

My reseller just pointed me to the new plugin. He thinks it's for C4D 10 only though and is checking around even though Maxon told me a few months ago it would be OK for 9.*. Does anyone know if it's C4D 9.6 compatible?

 

Heres the link:

 

http://www.maxon.net/pages/download/c4dr10_e.html

[boacon]

Thanks for the info. My first post here - I've been using archicad for 5-6 yrs and cinema for about 3 and was hanging out for the release of this update. I loaded the .apx file in my archicad 10\ add ons\ import export folder but unfortunately when I check in my archicad add ons manager it tells me that the add on is out of date (which is the same response as it gave when I tried to load the older version of the add on some time ago).

 

Have you been able to make the export from archicad work?

 

Thanks

 

Steve

[Wokka]

Steve,

I just placed it directly in my ArchiCad add-ons directory and didn't touch the original files in C4D. At a quick glance it seems to be fine working that way.

I think you've got a conflict with the earlier version that was never intended for ArchiCad 10 so look for the apx file and move/delete it then try the new one.

Good luck!

(ps I've had similar experience, ArchiCad 4.55 and C4D 7 were my first)

[Wokka]

Just got an update.

There are two plugins!

This ones for 9.6:

 

http://www.maxon.net/pages/download/c4dr95_e.html

 

Cheers

[boacon]

Thanks for your reply.

 

I have tried a few things and still not working. When archicad 10 came out I tried the cinema add on, found it didn't work so removed it. Copying the new updated add on to the archicad 10 add on folder (or to the add on\import export folder) makes no difference, ie I still get the message in add ons manager that the cinema add on is out of date.

 

I was on archicad build 987 so thinking that might be an issue I have just now updated to the latest - 1010. That has made no difference.

 

I have also loaded the add on onto my draughtsman's PC which has never had the cinema add on on it and still it comes up as out of date.

 

I am trying to contact my local archicad support to see if there is anything I could/should be doing.

 

What build are you on Warwick? - and are you PC or mac?

 

Is there anyone else who has got the updated add on to work or otherwise.

 

Thanks

[Wokka]

Steve,

I'm on PC build 1010 AUS.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

I would try removing all the files from both applications, start them both (make sure the addon isn't loaded in ArchiCad), close them down and try a reinstall.

 

Good luck.

[alias_mo]

Hello,

 

I have an other Problem.

I have an old CD with ArchiCAD Exchange for ArchiCAD 8.5. Now I want to update it to ArchiCAD 10 and C4D 9.6.

 

I used this steps:

 

1. Install the ArchiCAD plugin from your CD into the CINEMA 4D installation.

2. Copy the contens of the folder “CINEMA 4D Plugins / ArchiCAD /” into the folder “CINEMA 4D R9 / plugins / ArchiCAD /”. Overwrite already existing files.

3. Copy the contens of the folder “CINEMA 4D Plugins / Material Exchanger /” into the folder “CINEMA 4D R9 / plugins / Material Exchanger”. Overwrite already existing files.

4. Install the contents of the folder “Exchange Plugins / ArchiCAD 10 /” into your ArchiCAD installation. See the PDF documentation for further instructions.

 

 

And now I can export the file form ArchiCAD and Import to Cinema without problems.

 

But if I want to change the Import Preferences C4D allways said: "Dialog Resource is corrupted" ...

 

 

any suggestion ?

 

I am on an Apple G5 PPC

[cuba]

i have the same problem with the "add ons manager that the cinema add on is out of date", i've also tried on different cpu's.

has anyone found some solution yet?

[boacon]

Hi Bart,

The add-on is still not working for me. I tried Warwick's suggestion above and it didn't work sadly. I have tried all manner of other things (which I have communicated to maxon support as well) to no avail.

 

Just to re-iterate, I can import the .ac4d file (created in archicad 9) into cinema 9.6 no problem but I can't do the archicad to c4d export from archicad 10. I have the same problem as you in that the add-ons manager sees the add-on but identifies it as out of date. There is no option to export to cinema in the 3D window.

 

According to my maxon reseller there are, including me, only 2 people in Australia and NZ (where I am) who have this problem. My archicad reseller (in NZ) tells me that he can export from archicad 10 on winxp32 but not from winxp64. I have PC's running both winxp64 sp1 and winxp32 sp2 and it don't work on either.

 

Maxon support advised me to reinstall sp2 which i have done on one PC but this has not helped. I will try it on another PC and see if it works - it faces west so that could make a difference ;-)

 

I have about a dozen archicad 10 add-ons (made by developers not graphisoft) which I seem to have been able to install correctly and which all work so I am scratching my head as to why this one doesn't. I have tried removing all other add-ons to see if one conflicts with the cinema add-on but that doesn't help.

 

One hunch I had was to do with the files mvcp71.dll and mvcr71.dll. These files were not present in the archicad 8 or 9 root folder but they came with the maxon plugin and the instructions were to place them in the windows\system 32 folder. With archicad 10 these .dll files are present in my archicad 10 root folder - so I have copies of them in 2 places now. I questioned maxon support about this and they didn't seem too sure about where they should be. I have tried removing them from one location and then from the other but it hasn't helped. Does anyone know what they do and - to those users who have got the add-on working - where are these .dll files located on your setup?

 

If there is anyone else out there who does or did have this issue it would be great to hear from them.

 

cheers Steve S

[Derek Entesano]

Steve,

so what is the 'date modified' on the AcCinema4dExp.apx file in your Import-Export folder? I want to see if it is the same as the one I am using successfully.

[boacon]

Derek Hi,

The date created is Wednesday, 20 December 2006 8:45:35 am

 

The date modified is Saturday, 23 December 2006 9;34;34 am (The date modified is presumably the date I downloaded it from maxon's site)

 

Your question prompted me to download the thing again from the maxon site and that one is the following...

 

The date created is Friday, 24 November 2006 10;54;24 am

 

The date modified is Today, 8 February 2007 2;50;11 pm

 

The new one functions in exactly the same manner (ie not at all)

 

Regards

Steve S

[sandkkoenig]

if the roof isn't modified, then you can remove it from the archicad tag (don't delete it), merge the archicad model, delete the new roof polugons, and then drag again the roof polys.

this way you can keep all the material selections and you don't have to make them again.

i know that it's a workaround, but it works for me as long as you don't change the geometry of the roof.

cheers,

george

 

George could you please explain in detail - the process you use- (remove it from tag) and (drag again the roof polys) Im curious how you are doing this and am facing the same problem- This is my first post! Thanks!!

[Derek Entesano]

hmm, my file is 84KB and says it was created Tuesday, January 02, 2007, 10:15:33 AM, but modified Friday, November 24, 2006, 10:54:24 AM. Go figure. cant think of what the issue is though.