Blender Model.. How to convert?

[Adam Elder]

I have been searching high and low for the past two days for information on how to get a model from blender to Cinema 4d. This is not a blender forum, I know, but I am running out of time and options. The client delivered a model in a .blend format and nothing seems to work to get it into another application. I have tried installing blender and exporting .3ds, .obj etc and it only crashes whatever program I am trying to import the model into. I have tried PolyTrans, which does not seem to support .blend models at all… I cannot find any straight forward info that isn’t filled with customized scripting. Does anybody have experience with this and know where to go from here?

[Mdme_sadie]

At this point rather than wasting any more time you should request your client to send you the file in a usable format with optionally an explanation stating that you were unable to successfully convert the file yourself to a usable format due to the fact that Blender was unable to output to well known and standardized file formats correctly (more or less explaining what you have done here, that you tried importing what it produced in multiple applications all with the same disastrous results).

Remember your time is their money on a job, so it’s in both of your interests for them to send you a file that you can in fact read. If you plan on working with this client a lot then you might consider gently guiding them towards using tools that actually work and are production ready or are at least capable of such basic tasks as reasonably consistently correct file-format export for a few of the more common formats.