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Locking transforms

Locking transforms - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Locking transforms

- [Instructor] Sometimes you will want to prevent an object from moving, rotating, or scaling. And you might want to prevent it from doing those transforms in particular axes. To do that, we can lock the transforms. That's pretty helpful. Because, for example, an elbow has only one degree of freedom. It can rotate in one axis only. An elbow is able to rotate, in this case, only around the X axis. Grab the rotate tool, we can see that the X axis is the elbow joint. An elbow is not able to bend in these other directions, and it technically cannot swivel like this. We actually can rotate our wrist relative to our elbow, but that's because we have actually two bones inside there, the radius and ulna. So in this simple example here, we only want to rotate in one axis, which is X. Let's see how to lock transforms for an object. That's done from the hierarchy panel. Go over to the command panel, click on hierarchy, and the default panel is pivot, but you want to go to link info. And here…

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