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Defining the home grid

Defining the home grid - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Defining the home grid

[Instructor] - Now that we have a good grasp on how units and scale work in 3ds Max, lets set up a scene with our own chosen units of measurement and sizing for the grid. We'll start by going into the Customize menu, and choose Units Setup. And then within here, I'm going to choose Metric as my display unit scale, with centimeters as the default units, and click OK. Now I want to set up the size and spacing of the grid. To do that, I can go to one of these magnet icons up here, we have Snaps for position, and angles, and so on. Just right-click on any one of those magnet icons, and the Grid and Snap Settings window comes up. The Snaps tab let's us choose what we're going to snap to. I want to set up the home grid, so go to the Home Grid tab. And here we have the Grid Spacing, and it's currently set to 25.4 centimeters in my scene. And that's about ten inches. I'll set the Grid Spacing to one centimeter. Type in a one, and press the Tab key, and immediately the grid changed in all the…

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