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Customizing hotkeys

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Customizing hotkeys

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- [Instructor] One of the great things about 3ds Max, is its customizability. We can assign keyboard shortcuts to almost any command and in this case, I want to customize my keyboard shortcuts in order to get quick access to the Zoom Extents All Selected command, and that's down here in the extreme lower-right corner. Zoom Extents All Selected, and what that does is it zooms all of the viewports to enclose the selected object. So if I select something, like this plant, and click Zoom Extents All Selected, then all of the viewports zoom to enclose that object, or frame it. Well, there's no keyboard shortcut for that. There is a keyboard shortcut for its sister command, which is Zoom Extents All and that we can get at by holding down the mouse button here and we'll get a flyout and the white cube here, white box, is Zoom Extents All and when I choose that from the flyout, it also commits the command. So, my viewports all zoomed out, or all dollied back to enclose all geometry. Okay, so…

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