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Specifying system units

Specifying system units - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Specifying system units

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- [Instructor] The Display Unit setting changes the system of measurement but it doesn't actually change the size of objects. It doesn't scale the world. But there is a way to change the scale of the world and the accuracy of spatial calculations by changing the system units. I've got this one cubic meter box here in the world. I'll select it and go over to the Modify panel to show that it's one meter on a side. Now let's go into the Customize menu, to Units Setup. The big button at the top is labeled, System Unit Setup. Click on that and it launches a child window. Here, we can set the internal accuracy of 3ds Max. We can interpret a system unit as any size and that will effectively scale the world up or down. You may need to do this if you're modeling a very small or a very large world. If you wanted to model a very large object such as a planet, to unity scale or one-to-one scale, then you might want to change the System…

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