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Using Isolate Selection and Lock Selection - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2022 Essential Training
Using Isolate Selection and Lock Selection
- [Tutor] If you're working on a scene with many objects and you just want to focus on one thing, you can either isolate the object, which will hide everything else or you can lock the selection so that you can't select anything else. Let's look at isolate first. All you have to do is just select something such as this group. And then at the bottom of the interface is a button labeled isolate selection. Looks like little a cyan box with brackets around it. Click that button and all the other objects are hidden and the perspective use zooms in to the current selection. The other views do not zoom. Okay, we can turn that back off again to unisolate that selection. The keyboard shortcut to isolate a selection is Alt + Q. I can select something and hit Alt + Q on the keyboard and that object is isolated. There's actually a separate hotkey to disable isolate selection. If we try to hit Alt + Q again, nothing happens.…
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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 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 XRef record6m 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 center4m 23s
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Using Isolate Selection and Lock Selection2m 23s
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Selecting in Window and Crossing modes4m
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