Understanding coordinate systems

- [Instructor] When we transform and manipulate…objects in 3ds Max, we need to understand…coordinate systems.…Now a coordinate system is basically just a…relative way of indicating where…x, y, and z are oriented.…It's really just the orientation of those axes.…By default, we do have a world axis but,…each object itself has its own internal axis.…

So when we manipulate, we need to be aware of…how we're manipulating, in other words, along…which coordinate system.…Coordinate systems can be selected using this…pull-down menu.…We have a number of them, we have View, which is…what we're on now, and that's kind of the default.…We also have some other important ones, such…as World, Parent, and Local.…If I keep this on View, and I select this object,…and go into Select and Move, you'll see that the…x, y, and z axes are oriented in a certain way.…

So, X, y, and z, I have y pointing to my left,…x is pointing away from me, and so on.…If I change this to say Local, notice how this changes.…So, in this object here, we notice how x is now…