External Reference
What is it about?
This page documents the External Reference node of the Scene Nodes system in Cinema 4D. It loads one object from an external 3D file directly into the node setup — lightweight geometry referencing without scene import.
This can be used to load a 3D format supported by Cinema 4D. Note that only one object is loaded from this file. If there are multiple objects in the file, only the last element will be loaded.