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Preparing spreadsheet data

Preparing spreadsheet data - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Preparing spreadsheet data

- So here in this lesson we're going to start the rebuilding of this line chart that we see here in Excel inside CINEMA. So in order to import this into CINEMA there's a couple things that we need to fix here first. Number one, all this data here, it's all text. We need numerical values for that so luckily all of these values are right here so we'll just move this guy over and copy once one through 12 into here. And the last thing that we need to do is format that top part here. And this needs to be the same column values that we'll find in our structure manager inside CINEMA 4D so these are X, Y, and Z values and before we export this out all this extra stuff shouldn't be imported over so I'm just going to select all of this, copy, and we'll make a temporary spreadsheet so we'll go here FILE, SAVE AS, and we'll name that line graph data and we'll save it as a .CSV file. So I had this previously, I'm just going to replace it and it's going to ask you to save the active sheet, yes, and…

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