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Specifying system units - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2017 Essential Training
Specifying system units
- [Voiceover] The display unit's setting doesn't actually change the size of objects, it doesn't change the accuracy of 3Ds Max, all it does is just expose different numbers to the user. However, there is a related dialog that actually controls the internal workings of 3Ds Max, and that's called the system unit setup. We'll go back into the customize menu, to unit setup, and there's a button at the top that says system unit setup. When we click that, we get a child dialog opening up. And this actually controlls the accuracy of the program. By default, internal units inside the guts of 3Ds Max are inches. And if we change this value here to some other system, we would actually be changing the accuracy of the program. And that's seen here in this section, we've got a slider here, that allows us to preview the accuracy of the program at different distances away from the origin or the center of the world. Computers are not infinitely accurate. We can't actually simulate the entire…
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Getting familiar with the interface4m 52s
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Using the Create and Modify panels3m 50s
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Navigating in viewports6m 13s
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Transforming objects with Move and Rotate5m 43s
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Using hotkeys3m 11s
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Specifying display units3m 7s
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Specifying system units4m 17s
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Defining the home grid3m 27s
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Choosing shading modes4m 26s
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Configuring viewports2m 49s
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Customizing colors and hotkeys3m 44s
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Customizing hotkeys5m 18s
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