Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your C4D file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert C4D to another file type
To convert C4D scenes to another format, you need Cinema 4D or other 3D software.
Convert a file to C4D
To convert other file formats to the "3D Scene Project" file type, you need software like Cinema 4D or a similar tool.
About C4D files
A .c4d file is the native project format used by Maxon Cinema 4D, a leading 3D modeling, animation, and rendering application (detailed on Wikipedia). It stores complete 3D scenes, including polygonal geometry, splines, material nodes, textures, rigging, lighting, and animation timelines. The primary disadvantage of a .c4d file is its proprietary, closed-ecosystem nature. Opening it natively requires an expensive software subscription that many end-users do not have. The files can easily exceed hundreds of megabytes, making them difficult to share, and web browsers or standard operating systems cannot natively preview .c4d geometry. If you are sharing 3D assets with developers using Unity or Unreal Engine, or with artists using Blender, you must convert the file. To overcome these limitations, convert your .c4d files to standard formats. For game engines and rigged characters, convert to FBX to preserve animation and skeletal data. For simple, static geometry sharing, OBJ is universally supported. For web-based 3D viewers and augmented reality, convert to GLB or GLTF. Be aware that proprietary setups like specialized Cinema 4D MoGraph effectors or procedural shaders will be baked or lost during conversion to universal formats.
Convert.Guru analyzes your C4D file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert C4D file to OBJ, FBX, STL, GLB, SKP, DWG, DAE, 3DS, MAX, BLEND, MA or MB, you can use Cinema 4D or similar software from the "3D Animation and Scene Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DWG, DAE, X3D, IGES, WRL, JT, SKP, 3DS, 3DM, OBJ, STEP or FBX files to C4D, try Cinema 4D or another comparable tool in the "3D Animation and Scene Storage" category.
The C4D Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our C4D converter.