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Customizing hotkeys - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2022 Essential Training
Customizing hotkeys
- [Instructor] One of the great things about 3ds Max is its customizability. We can assign keyboard shortcuts to almost any command. In this example, we'll create a custom hotkey to get quick access to a command called Zoom Extents All Selected. That's down here in the lower right corner, Zoom Extents All Selected. It zooms all of the viewports to enclose the selected object. So if I select something, such as this plant, and click that button, all of the viewports zoom to enclose or frame that object. Well, there's no keyboard shortcut for that, so let's create one. In fact, our best option here is to steal the keyboard shortcut from a similar command, which is Zoom Extents All. First, let me show you how these work. We can get at the Zoom Extents All command by holding down the mouse button on Zoom Extents All Selected. So hold down the mouse and you get a flyout. The icon with the white box is Zoom Extents All,…
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Getting familiar with the interface2m 56s
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Customizing a workspace4m 59s
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Customizing background and grid colors2m 40s
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Creating primitives with keyboard entry4m 37s
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Creating primitives interactively with the mouse2m 36s
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Position objects with Select and Move5m 15s
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Rotate and scale objects4m 47s
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Navigating in viewports4m 10s
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Orbit and viewport Undo5m 8s
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Saving time with keyboard shortcut hotkeys3m 41s
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Customizing hotkeys5m 11s
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Choosing viewport shading modes3m 10s
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Advanced viewport settings and presets10m 9s
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Configuring viewport layouts2m 17s
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