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Customizing a workspace - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2020 Essential Training
Customizing a workspace
- [Instructor] Let's look at customizing the workspace in 3ds Max. Basically I want to simplify the interface and remove some of these screen elements and only bring them up when I need them. And the first one I'll turn off is the ribbon up here, we have the modeling ribbon. And I can once again show the full ribbon expand that out. If I want to hide the ribbon completely there's a button on the main tool bar. "show ribbon" is currently enabled. So I'll turn that off and save a little bit of screen real estate. And also speed up the interface a little bit too. We'll come back to the modeling ribbon when we come to the appropriate point in the course. One the left we have a couple more panels that we're not going to be using just yet so I'm going to hide those as well. On the left we have the viewport layout tabs. And we can hide that by right clicking on the textured bar at the top of any panel or toolbar. So right click on that. And we get a context-sensitive popup menu and at the…
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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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