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Defining the home grid - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2017 Essential Training
Defining the home grid
- [Voiceover] Once you've established your display units, you'll also want to control the grid settings. The grid is set to an arbitrary size currently, and the spacing between the grid lines is arbitrary as well. We want to control that so that, for example, we can look at the grid and instantly determine the scale of objects. To change the grid settings, one way to do that is to right-click on any one of these magnet icons here on the main toolbar. Right-click on that, and you get the Grid and Snap Settings dialog. Go to the Home Grid tab, and we will see the current state of the grid. What we are seeing here now is that the distance between two adjacent grid lines is 25.4 centimeters. Let's bring that down to one centimeter. Type in "1" and press Enter. And now we have a lot tighter spacing to the grid. We can see that here in our orthographic views. It looks like our grid disappeared in the perspective view. It's still there, it's just very small, and it's underneath that plant…
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Getting familiar with the interface4m 52s
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Using the Create and Modify panels3m 50s
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Navigating in viewports6m 13s
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Transforming objects with Move and Rotate5m 43s
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Using hotkeys3m 11s
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Specifying display units3m 7s
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Specifying system units4m 17s
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Defining the home grid3m 27s
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Choosing shading modes4m 26s
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Configuring viewports2m 49s
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Customizing colors and hotkeys3m 44s
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Customizing hotkeys5m 18s
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