What is a .C4D file?
C4D is the native scene format of Maxon Cinema 4D. Created and opened by Cinema 4D.
- Did you know
- Cinema 4D is especially popular in motion graphics and broadcast design.
- Cinema 4D began life on the Commodore Amiga, growing out of an award-winning ray-tracer called FastRay written by brothers Christian and Philip Losch.
- It is made by the German company Maxon, which was founded years before the software gained its Cinema 4D name.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify CAD files and read header metadata: AutoCAD DWG (DXF now opens as a 2D drawing preview - see Diagrams), SolidWorks (SLDPRT, SLDASM, plus .sldreg Settings Wizard backups - release year, settings groups and the saved registry keys - and SOLIDWORKS Visualize .svap appearances and .svpj projects, opened as the ZIP packages they are), Fusion 360 (F3D), Inventor (IPT, IAM), Rhino (3DM) and Grasshopper (GH, GHX), SketchUp (SKP), 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini, ZBrush, Maya, CATIA, Eagle, and KiCad.
- Depth of analysis
- .C4D is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .C4D file
- Drag a .C4D file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.