Does anyone know a method of taking Solidworks models into C4D so they retain decals/textures?

Thank you

Chris

Not familiar at all with Solidworks but obj and fbx should keep texture placements. 

Anders

Thanks , I'm pretty sure obj is not an export option, I'll check on FBX when I get home.

Collada might also work.

/Anders

Thanks, never heard of that.

I did look at FBX but it was not an option. The only file type I could get to work was STL, but it split all the assemby into seperate parts without textures.

If I ever get this to work I'll post an image :)

Do so :)

Found two links that might be of interest:

http://help.solidworks.com/2012/English/SolidWorks/sldworks/Importing_Exporting_SolidWorks_Documents.htm

http://labs.solidworks.com/products/product.aspx?name=colladaexport

/Anders

That Collada exporter looks brilliant. I'll try and figure out how it all works when I get home.

Thank you very much.

No problem!

/Anders

FarawayPictures: Did you have success with using Collada format?

Unfortunatley not. I've asked at the Solidworks forum about it, but it seems a lot of the plug-ins are for older versions of solidworks...and I have the latest version (student).

I think I'm going to be stuck with STL and piecing together in C4D, then retexturing.

Eventually an update:

This is my Solidworks assembly taken into Cinema 4D for rendering.
I have had real trouble finding a converter to do this, to turn a solidworks file to a Wavefront OBJ. There are some free ones listed, but I couldn't get any of them to work with Solidworks 2013.
So i eventually found Transmagic, but it was only a free sample and they wanted £5000 for the full plug in!!!!
it seems the best thing to do is either export out of Solidworks as a WRL file, or use the free programme Meshlab:http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ to convert an stl to an obj or a wrl file.

Looking good!

I remember using MeshLab when dealing with STL-files a couple of years ago. Was quite good as far as I recall.

/Anders