[Eelko Meester]

I found it. Just select an edge and choose Select in the menubar and Choose Hide Selected.
Still looking how to select an hidden edge and a way tot automate it.

[Eelko Meester]

If you make a box in Max it’s edges are visible but the diagonal edges are hidden. Just the same as in C4D.

In Max you can select every edge, hidden or not, and turn each edge on or off (hidden). You can also select all edges and apply an Auto Edge. Every edge is evaluated on it’s angle and turned on or off based on that angle. Very handy for complex shapes.

In C4D you can select edges but you can’t hide them as far as I know.
If I make wall with a window and door by using a boole it shows the diagonal lines. There is an option to turn these of but sometimes it makes the geometry falty (faces disappear). And I make lots of other things.
I want to see the lines on the corners, not in the polygons.

I’ve added an example:

I want to hide them in the viewport, it’s easier for editing.
I have found the phong-tab but thats more about smoothing.

[Eelko Meester]

Adobe After Effects uses Cinema 4D as a plug-in. It almost looks the same as the original program but some features are disabled. I found out that a lot of modeling (editing) tools are unavailable and you can’t save rendered images to disk. You have to render in AE in order to save a rendering as a image file.

For students it’s possible to get the full Cinema 4D program for free. See the Maxon website.
Other options are 3D studio MAX, also free for students or Blender which is free and open source.