useful 3dmax shortcut list

Useful 3ds Max Shortcut List

If you are working on a project using 3ds Max, you must work efficiently. Creating 3D art itself is a time-consumingactivity. Instead of using your valuable time finding where the button is, you will find very helpful if you are using shortcut.I am not shortcut freak, but in my experience using shortcut saves me a lot of time. Once you memorize them by usingthem frequently, shortcut will increase your productivity, because you are working using your right hand in the mouse andleft hand in keyboard.by Didik Wijaya If you are working on a project using 3ds Max, you must work efficiently. Creating 3D art itself is a time-consuming activity. Instead of using your valuable time finding where the button is, you will find very helpful if youare using shortcut. I am not shortcut freak, but in my experience using shortcut saves me a lot of time. Once youmemorize them by using them frequently, shortcut will increase your productivity, because you are working using yourright hand in the mouse and left hand in keyboard. Here I list most useful 3ds max shortcuts: VIEWPORT and DISPLAY F3 Toggle between WireFrame/Smooth And Highlight F4 Turn on/off Edged Faces G Hide/show Grid F Switch to Front viewport T Switch to Top viewport L Switch to Left viewport R Switch to Right viewport B Swith to Bottom viewport P Switch to Perspective viewport C Swith to Camera viewport U

Swith to User viewport

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Z Zoom Extent All if none object is selected, if there is object selected, it will zoom extent the object X Turn on/off Transform Gizmo. Sometimes the transform gizmo is off by accident. This is the quick way to restore it D Disable the viewport Alt+W Maximize viewport Ctrl+(+) Zoom in selected viewport Ctrl+(-) Zoom out selected viewport

SELECTION Q Select W Select and Move E Select and Rotate R Select and Scale H Select by Name Ctrl+A Select all Ctrl+D De-select all Ctrl+I Invert selection

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Spacebar Lock selection Del Delete selected object 1 to 5

Select one of sub-object selection (1=Vertex, 2=Edge, 3=border, 4=Polygon, 5=element) S Toggle Snap A Toggle Angle Snap

MATERIAL M Open Material Editor G When is Material Editor = Get Material Up arrow When in Material Editor = Go to Parent

RENDERING F9 Render last rendered viewport, or if used at first render, it will render selected viewport F10 Open Render Scene dialog Shift+Q

Render selected viewport

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Ctrl+C Clone Selected Object

MODELING Alt+C When in Editable Poly = Enable Cut Shift+E When in Editable Poly = Enable Extrude

ANIMATION N Toggle Auto Key button / (slash) Play animation

MISC 6 Particle View window 7 Counts faces amount in selected object 8 Open Environment window 9 Open Advanced Lighting 0 Render to Texture

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F1 Help F12 Transform Type In Ctrl+X Expert Mode Ctrl+N Open new file Ctrl+O Open file Ctrl+S Save file Ctrl+Z Undo Ctrl+Y Redo

Tips: Use only the shortcut you need based on your projects. To become familiar with shorcuts, I suggest use several ofthem once in a while and after you memorize them begin trying other shortcuts. You don't need to memorize them all atonce.

The shortcuts mentioned in this page are just a small subset of the available shortcuts in 3D Studio MAX. I don't think you need more than these, but in case you need other shotcuts youcan find in the 3D Studio MAX user reference.

In addition to the default keyboard shortcuts, you can also create your own custom keyboard shortcut: - Choose Customize menu > Customize User Interface - In Keyboard tab, highlight the action for which you want to create a shortcut. - In the Hotkey field, enter the keyboard shortcut you want to assign to the action. - Click Assign.

USING THE MOUSE EFFICIENTLY IN 3DS MAX

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Beside using shortcut, you can also maximize your mouse usage in 3ds Max. Using the mouse properly can be a huge timesaver as well. Usually we use only Left Mouse Button and Right Mouse Button.If you have 3 button mouse, you can benefit from Middle Mouse Button. Here I list the use of each 3 mouse buttons in3ds Max.

USING MOUSE EFFICIENTLY LMB=left mouse button, MMB=middle mouse button, RMB=right mouse button Ctrl+LMB Add selection Alt+LMB Reduce selection Shift+LMB Clone object RMB right click in non-active viewport will activate it RMB right click inside active viewport will open Quad Menu RMB right click in viewport's name will open viewport menu MMB Pan view Alt+MMB Rotate view Scroll wheel Zoom in / out

Any question or comments regarding this tutorial should be sent to: Didik Wijaya, email: [email protected]

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