We can actually go ahead and just choose View, Frame All, and it will show us all of the objects here in the scene. Now, you may not see your kitchen immediately, and that's because it's off here over to the side. So, we'll go ahead and leave these options like they are by default, and click Okay, and bring in our model. What this basically does is it pulls in the location data from the SketchUp model, so you can get an accurate sun simulation, and you can actually animate that sun simulation by animating the physical sky. We're not going to need it for a non-photorealistic render, but I'm going to go ahead and bring in the daylight information from SketchUp, just in case I decide to make a photorealistic render from this same model later.
I'm going to go ahead and leave the daylight system physical sky checked here and bring that into the scene. Now we'll go ahead and switch into Cinema 4D, and I'm just going to go ahead and choose File, Open, and we will open that same file that we just saved, Kitchen.skp. I'm going to go ahead and change that to "Kitchen," and we'll go ahead and click Save. We're going to go ahead and just choose SketchUp 2015, and I'm going to right click and choose Save Link As, so I can save this in a specific folder. And if you're using another CAD application besides these four, you can use industry standard formats, like DXF and DWG, and IGS, and even OBJ to bring your models over into Cinema 4D. Now if you're using Vectorworks, ArchiCAD, or Allplan, there's really great integrations that allow you to save a Cinema 4D file directly out of your CAD application.
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Just go ahead and go to the download option, and we can choose SketchUp 2015 model, because Cinema 4D Release 17 and later can bring SketchUp files directly into Cinema 4D. So, we're going to go ahead and grab this from the 3D Warehouse. And because I eventually want to turn this into a 360 degree video, I wanted something with walls on all sides so that there would be something to look at in all directions. I chose it mainly because it was one of the first ones that popped out at me as a really nice design, and it's also fully enclosed.
Now since I'm not an architect, I've gone to the 3D Warehouse and I've searched for kitchens, and I went looking for one that I could pull into this scene.
In this tutorial, we're going to create a non-photorealistic render, basically a line drawing of a kitchen, using Cinema 4D's Sketch & Toon render engine.