Preparations for Modeling

Despite Cinema 4D's greatly improved modeling tools, since Version 6 there are still several smaller specialty areas for which there are no standard tools. A while ago, therefore, I wrote three quite useful plug-ins, which you can download from my Internet site (www.vonkoenigsmarck.de). Of course you can also find these plug-ins on the CD ROM for this book.

Because I know from many Cinema users that these plug-ins already belong to their standard toolkit, I would like to work with them intensively in this workshop. You will soon see why these plug-ins have become so beloved.

EdgeExtrude, EdgeBevel, and Cutter

Installing the Plug-ins

Before you begin, you should place the three plug-ins with their accompanying icon files ...

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