Platonic Object

What is it about?

This page documents the Platonic primitive in Cinema 4D. It creates the Platonic solids — tetrahedron to icosahedron plus variants — as parametric objects, useful as geometric design elements or clean starting shapes.

This command creates a Platonic primitive. Several predefined shapes are available.

Interactive editing

Platonic objects have one handle:

  • Drag handle 1 to change the radius.
    The handle of the Platonic primitives.