From the course: 3ds Max 2019 Essential Training
Choosing a workspace - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2019 Essential Training
Choosing a workspace
- [Instructor] The very first time a 3DS Max user launches the application, he or she may see a screen asking, do you want the Classic or the Design Standard interface and preferences? You can choose either in that window because you can just change those preferences later in the program. So it doesn't matter whether you choose Classic or Design. Once you get past that screen, you will see the so-called Welcome Screen which is what we have here. This just gives us some links to some external resources and a couple of helpful tips. If you don't want to see that, then you can turn off Show this Welcome Screen at Startup. This option actually doesn't show up the very first time you launch the program. I can turn it off now and then close the Welcome Screen. If you don't see that little Show this Welcome Screen at Startup checkbox you can just go into the Welcome Screen again from the Help menu. Welcome Screen. And then here you can turn the switch on or off. We're looking at the Default workspace. We can choose a different workspace from the pull-down list up here in the upper right corner of the application. Instead of Default, I can choose a different one. Let's try the Modular Mini workspace. What that does is it changes up this toolbar up here. We see that we've got some different options there. We could try a different workspace. Let's go for the Alt Menu and Toolbar workspace. That loads in and now we have a toolbar here on the top and another one on the side over here on the left. Go back up to the workspaces, we could also choose the Design Standard interface. That is one with larger buttons that resemble other Autodesk applications such as Revit. If we want to customize the workspaces, we can just drag and drop some of these elements around. We'll take a look at that later in the course. Right now, just go back to the Default workspace and we'll be using that throughout this course. Additionally, if you want to you can go into a window to manage the workspaces. So I can choose Workspaces, Manage Workspaces. Within here, we can create our own workspaces or delete or modify the existing ones. Close that window. That's just a brief introduction to choosing workspaces in 3DS Max.
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Contents
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Getting familiar with the interface3m 14s
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Customizing a workspace6m 19s
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Customizing viewport and grid colors4m 26s
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Creating and manipulating primitives5m 49s
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Transforming objects with Move and Rotate6m 15s
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Navigating in viewports6m 35s
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Choosing viewport shading modes4m 4s
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Saving time with keyboard shortcut hotkeys5m 41s
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Customizing hotkeys4m 29s
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Choosing a reference coordinate system8m 27s
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Manipulating objects around a transform center3m 42s
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Using the Scene Explorer outline2m 6s
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Configuring viewport layouts4m 16s
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Using Isolate Selection and Lock Selection2m 26s
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Selecting in window and crossing modes1m 51s
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Specifying display units4m 43s
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Specifying system units4m 41s
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Defining the home grid4m 38s
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Saving a maxstart.max template scene3m 10s
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Creating an image plane9m 50s
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Duplicating objects with Array8m 8s
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Collecting objects in groups3m 4s
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Managing display layers6m 26s
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Merging scenes3m 32s
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Referencing scenes with XRef objects6m 32s
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Creating shapes6m 25s
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Creating a loft compound object6m 49s
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Creating a freehand spline3m 44s
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Editing control vertex types3m 45s
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Editing Bezier splines7m 49s
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Rendering shapes3m 33s
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Setting shape detail with Interpolation4m 59s
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Revolving a surface with the Lathe modifier7m 23s
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Extruding with the Sweep modifier5m 37s
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Importing Illustrator paths to 3ds Max7m 19s
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Adding a Bevel modifier9m 57s
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Creating a TextPlus primitive10m 14s
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Modeling walls with the Extrude modifier8m 6s
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Preparing Boolean operands6m 6s
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Adding edges with Quickslice4m 30s
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Cutting with Boolean subtraction2m 29s
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Creating doors6m 39s
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Using the Modeling ribbon5m 56s
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Creating polygons3m 27s
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Transforming sub-objects5m 35s
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Use the caddy to set options for an inset polygon6m 1s
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Cloning sub-objects with Detach3m 26s
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Branching with Editable Poly Extrude3m 21s
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Simplifying geometry with Remove2m 47s
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Extruding a planar surface to a closed volume4m 44s
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Detailing with Editable Poly Chamfer4m 5s
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Reflecting objects with Mirror6m 11s
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Welding vertices4m 47s
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Refining geometry with SwiftLoop3m 31s
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Constraining sub-object transforms4m 27s
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Previewing renders with ActiveShade4m 3s
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Assigning a diffuse material2m 52s
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Creating photometric lights2m 39s
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Adjusting light intensity and color3m 44s
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Adjusting the Camera Exposure Control4m 46s
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Adjusting light shape5m 59s
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Adjusting light distribution3m 16s
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Controlling spotlight parameters3m 23s
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Creating a sun and sky7m 8s
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Illuminating a scene with the environment4m 1s
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Using the Light Explorer3m 26s
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Setting up Time Configuration6m 18s
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Creating keyframes in Auto Key mode3m 47s
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Creating keyframes in Set Key mode3m 9s
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Editing keyframes in the Timeline4m 13s
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Editing keyframes in the Dope Sheet5m 49s
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Editing function curves in the Curve Editor9m 35s
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Editing a trajectory with a motion path5m 56s
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