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Customizing hotkeys

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- [Instructor] To finish our chapter on the 3ds Max interface, I'd like to talk about customizing hotkeys. Hotkeys are super useful, and there are lots of them, but not every command that you want to use is necessarily bound to a key on the keyboard. For example, we can choose to zoom in on particular objects, and I will frame that object in a particular viewport. Or we could choose to zoom in on an object in all the viewports. What I would like is to set up a keyboard shortcut that will allow me to select a single object, and then zoom in on that object in all of the viewports. There isn't a keyboard shortcut for that. There is a button, however. If we go down to our viewport navigation, there are two buttons. Zoom Extents Selected, and Zoom Extents All Selected. If I select an object, and I click on Zoom Extents Selected, then 3ds Max will frame that object in the current view. If I click on Zoom Extents All Selected, then 3ds Max will frame the selected object in all views. Now if…

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