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Configuring viewport layouts - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2020 Essential Training
Configuring viewport layouts
- [Instructor] The layout of four viewports on the screen is a pretty standard one in 3D but if you want to you can customize 3ds Max to display the viewports in a different pattern. Maybe you want one large view for maybe your camera or perspective view and three smaller views for orthographic panels. You can do that quite easily. There is a toolbar for that which is called the Viewport Layout Tabs toolbar and earlier in the course I hid that toolbar. I'm going to unhide it now and to unhide a toolbar, you can right click on the Textured bar at the top or side of any toolbar including the command panel, right click on that textured bar and I will make the Viewport Layout Tabs visible once again. And that toolbar appears on the left side of the interface by default. And it's got one preset in it. It's the quad four or four viewport layout and if we want to load up another layout, just click on this triangle, this right-facing arrow, create a new viewport layout tab. And we have some…
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Getting familiar with the interface3m 14s
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Customizing a workspace6m 19s
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Customizing viewport and grid colors4m 26s
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Creating and manipulating primitives5m 49s
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Transforming objects with Move and Rotate5m 54s
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Navigating in viewports6m 35s
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Choosing viewport shading modes4m 4s
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Saving time with keyboard shortcut hotkeys5m 41s
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Customizing hotkeys4m 29s
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Choosing a reference coordinate system8m 27s
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Manipulating objects around a transform center3m 42s
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Using the Scene Explorer outline2m 6s
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Configuring viewport layouts3m 8s
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Using Isolate Selection and Lock Selection2m 26s
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Selecting in window and crossing modes1m 51s
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