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Defining the home grid - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2019 Essential Training
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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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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