• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Importing .xyz files

  Posted by Erinn Donnelly on March 19, 2013 at 9:20 pm

  Is there any way to import an .xyz file into C4D? Its from another 3-d program called Spartan. Essentially it is just coordinates on an xyz plot. Or is there another file format that I could save it as instead?

  Thanks in advance.

  Brian Jones replied 13 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Brian Jones

  March 19, 2013 at 10:39 pm

  look in C4d’s Preferences (or the Help) for file formats C4D will import, what will Spartan export besides .xyz?
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  Erinn Donnelly

  March 20, 2013 at 8:15 pm

  Spartan will export a number of Spartan files (Spartan Document, SPARTAN Exchange, SPARTAN Collection, Spartan Database, etc.), which I don’t think will be very helpful, but it also can export the following files:

  Cambridge
  Macromodel
  SybylMol
  SybylMol2
  Brookhaven
  MDL SD
  MDL SKL
  MDL TGF
  SMILES
  xyz
  JPEG
  PNG

  I was looking to keep the 3-d aspect of it, so a JPEG or a PNG might not be the most helpful, but it can do them.

  Thanks!
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  Brian Jones

  March 21, 2013 at 3:12 am

  I don’t recognize any of those outside the jpeg and png unless you can find another tool that will let you change one of the other 3d formats to something C4D will import I don’t know a solution

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