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title: "LBW Import"
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description: "This page documents the LBW import in Cinema 4D. It loads commercial Laubwerk plant libraries — complementing the built-in Laubwerk plant system …"
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# LBW Import

> **Note:** **What is it about?**
>
> This page documents the **LBW import** in **Cinema 4D**. It loads commercial Laubwerk plant libraries — complementing the built-in Laubwerk plant system integrated since 2025.3.

This involves the import of Plant libraries that were originally offered as commercial products for the *Laubwerk* plugin. As of Cinema 4D 2025.3, the *Laubwerk* functionality for easily configuring and adding 3D plants and trees is an integral part of the program, and the plants available via it are automatically installed in the [Asset Browser](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/79839.html.md).\
If you were previously a *Laubwerk* customer and therefore still have older Plant libraries that may not currently be part of the *Asset Browser* orare not included in your subscription, these separately purchased Plant libraries can still be loaded. Here you will find the corresponding default settings for how loaded *.lbw* and *.lbw.gz files* should be handled. Otherwise, these specifications for the import are also displayed again directly when a corresponding *Laubwerk* Plant file is opened.

If you have already purchased and installed your own *Laubwerk* Plant archives in the past, these can be found in these directories by default:

- *Windows*: Program Files/Laubwerk/Plants
- *MacOS*: /Library/Application Support/Laubwerk/Plants

If you are using it under MacOS, please note that the *Library* folder is usually hidden there. To display this in the Finder, open the Finder's Go menu while holding down the `Alt` key. As a result, the *Library* folder is also displayed in the list of standard directories.

Within the folders for the individual plant species stored in these directories, you will also find files with *.lbw* or *.lbw.gz* extensions, which can be imported using the **Open** command in the *File* menu.

> **Tip:** Note:
>
> Only use the *.lbw* or *.lbw.gz files* that are located directly in the respective plant folders and **not** the separate files that are stored in the respective *models* subfolders, for example. These do not contain all the information of a plant and therefore cannot support the usual configuration options of the *Plant Object*.\
> The following illustration shows an example of the file to be loaded in the directory of a plant for the Windows operating system.
>
> ![Image: 2025-2_Laubwerk_16.png](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2025-2_Laubwerk_16.png)\
> Exemplary representation of the file to be loaded in the directory of the selected plant