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Using hotkeys

Using hotkeys - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Using hotkeys

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- [Instructor] The icon buttons for viewport navigation and for object transforms are an easy way to get to those tools however, when you get into using 3ds Max on a daily basis, these buttons are really going to slow you down because you're going to need to move, rotate and scale objects all the time. You're going to need to constantly be moving around in the viewport and going back and forth to these icons is just going to add extra mouse miles and it's going to actually impact your productivity. In order to effectively use a 3D program like 3ds Max you need to memorize the most basic hotkeys. Especially for viewport navigation and transforms. Viewport navigation in 3ds Max is accomplished with the hotkeys associated with the middle mouse button. If you've got a three button mouse, then you're set. Almost all Windows mice have three buttons. They usually have a wheel as well. If you've got a wheel, then turn that wheel and you can dolly forward and back. But that is an incremental…

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