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Selecting in Window and Crossing modes - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2021 Essential Training
Selecting in Window and Crossing modes
- [Instructor] Let's go a little deeper into selection options. Up on the main toolbar we have the select object tool that you're familiar with. By default it has a selection region type of rectangle, meaning that we draw a rectangle to select objects. But there are different selection region types, this button is a fly out, we can press and hold that button and choose a different selection region type such as a circle, and then we can draw a circle to select objects, or we can use a lasso method, draw a lasso and select objects. We can cycle through those different selection region types with the keyboard shortcut Q, Q activates the select object tool and it also cycles through these different selection regions. I can press that button and go back to the rectangular selection region. Selections work differently in wire frame and shaded windows. In a wire frame view the selection tools work on wires. To select…
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Specifying display units5m 22s
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Specifying system units4m 38s
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Defining the home grid4m 44s
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Saving a maxstart.max template scene3m 11s
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Merging scenes5m 4s
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Duplicating object instances with Array4m 22s
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Clone objects with transforms1m 15s
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Introducing snap4m 36s
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Precision transforms with Grid and Snap4m 38s
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Outlining object names with Scene Explorer3m 53s
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Collecting objects in groups5m 4s
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Managing display layers3m 43s
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Controlling object and layer display properties5m 4s
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Understanding XREF external references3m 4s
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Creating an XREFrecord6m 52s
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Moving objects in reference coordinate systems5m 14s
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Rotating objects in reference coordinate systems4m 5s
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Manipulating objects around a Transform Coordinate Center4m 23s
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Using Isolate Selection and Lock Selection2m 25s
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Selecting in Window and Crossing modes4m
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