ARCHICAD works in millimeters. Cinema 4D defaults to centimeters. Always set your Cinema 4D project scale to 1 cm = 1 cm on import, or your 3m ceiling becomes 0.3m.
To create animations and renderings in Cinema 4D: cinema 4d for archicad
ARCHICAD exports every wall slab as a separate object. A 20-story building becomes 2,000 objects. Solution: Use the “Connect” object in Cinema 4D to merge geometry by material before adding MoGraph cloners. ARCHICAD works in millimeters
Cinema 4D is not a replacement for ARCHICAD’s documentation power. And ARCHICAD will never match Cinema 4D’s motion graphics or scattering capabilities. But together, they form one of the most underrated AEC visualization pipelines available. cinema 4d for archicad