Using hotkeys

Viewport navigation hotkeys are incredibly useful in any 3D program.…It will free you up from having to worry about clicking on icons just in order…to be able to move through the scene.…So you really will want to memorize the viewport navigation hotkeys.…Luckily in 3ds Max, it's quite a simple matter.…It's all about the middle mouse button.…I'm going to choose the Select Object tool so that you can see I do not have any…Viewport Navigation tools active, and I'll hold down the middle mouse button,…and that lets me navigate left and right and up and down in any viewport.…

So I'm moving my point of view left and right and up and down.…If I hold down the Alt key and the middle mouse button in an active viewport,…then that lets me tumble, and this is preferable to using the icon, because I'll…never get a Dutch Tilt.…I'll never get a Canted Angle this way.…The horizon line will always stay level.…And to move forward and back in your scene, it's Ctrl+Alt+Middle mouse…button all at once, and that lets you dolly forward or back in any viewport.…