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Essential 3DS Max Keyboard Shortcuts

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Learning keyboard and mouse shortcuts will greatly speed up your work in 3DS Max. Although 3DS Max has gazillions of shortcuts, this article only lists the most common/ important ones. You’ll find yourself using most of these shortcuts without even thinking about it.

The most important 3DS Max shortcuts are preceded by an exclamation mark {!} .

1/4 Absolutely Essentials Hotkeys

! M – Material Editor { }

! Alt+W – maximize, minimize current viewport (works like the { } button}

! Z – zoom in on selection (works like the “Zoom Extents” { } button}

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2/4 Mouse+Keyboard combinations

These are probably the most useful shortcuts. You’ll find yourself using them more often than anything else

! ALT+Middle Button - Orbit { }

! CTRL+Middle Button - Pan { }

Shift+Middle Button – Pan on Restricted Axis – this will restrict the pan axis to either x or y.

! Scroll Wheel - Zoom In/ Out – Add the ALT key to this to zoom in in smaller increments {}

! ! Ctrl+Left click on sub-object icons will transfer your current selection to the sub-object you clicked.

For example, if you’ve selected 20 edges and ctrl+click on the polygon icon, it will convert the edge selection to a polygon selection.

3/4 Viewport

! P – switch to the Perspective view

! Q – Select { }

! W – Move { }

! E – Rotate { }

! R – Scale { }

F - switch to front view

L – switch to left view

T – switch to the Top view

B – Switch to the Bottom view

C – switch to a Camera view

F – switch to the Front viewport

! 7 – Polygon Count

8 – Environment & Effects Window

F2 – Shade selected faces

! F3 – switch between smooth and wireframe

! F4 – edged faces



Ctrl+C – Create camera from view

ALT-Q – Isolate Object

X – Toggle Transform Gizmo

G – Hide or show Grid

Alt+B – Viewport Background

Space – Selection Lock / Unlock

4/4 Workflow

! Sub-Object Selection Keys – These are active when you’re working on an Editable Poly/

Mesh object. If your using primitives, the keys will switch to the Modify Tab { }.

1 - Vertex

2 – Edge

3 – Border

4 – Polygon

5 - Element

! Ctrl+Backspace – remove selected edge and associated vertices

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