What are 3ds Max Shortcuts? A 3D Studio Max software which is owned by Autodesk and helps you with 3D modeling, animation and rendering tool. Scrolling down the menus and rollouts will only slow your work speed and irritate or frustrate you the most. That is the reason why 3d’s Max shortcuts are given so much importance.
List of Autodesk 3ds Max Shortcuts
Hotkey | Description (all these letters should be lowercase) e.g A does not toggle Angle Snap but a does.)Be aware this chart is unaccurate in that respect. 3DS Max is not case insensitive |
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AA | Toggle Angle Snap on/off. |
b | Change active viewport to “Bottom” view. |
c | Change active viewport to “Camera” view (there must be at least 1 camera in your scene for this command to work). If you have more than 1 camera in your scene, this will toggle between cameras. |
d | Disable view (prevents view from updating; used when editing very large scenes to improve performance) |
e | rotate selected object (does not Select). |
f | Change active viewport to “Front” view. |
g | Toggle grid on/off. |
h | Select hidden objects in select from scene dialog by name to unhide those objects. |
i | Center active viewport to the mouse’s position. |
j | Show hide selection brackets |
l | Change active viewport to “Left” view. |
m | Open the Material Editor. |
N | Toggle Auto Key on/off. |
O | Adaptive degradation, shows objects as boxes, speed up viewport drawing in complex scenes |
P | Change active viewport to “Perspective” view. |
Q | Select Object. |
R | Select and Scale. |
S | Toggle Snap on/off. |
T | Change active viewport to “Top” view. |
U | Change active viewport to “User” view. |
W | Select and move. |
X | Hide/unhide gizmo. |
z | Zoom Extents All Selected. |
6 | Particle View (v6 & 7 only). |
7 | Polygon Count (displayed at upper left of viewport for selected object). |
8 | Environment panel. |
0 | Render to texture |
Space | Lock selection |
Up arrow | Walkthrough mode |
MMB | Pan view |
Ctrl+MMB | 2x Pan speed |
Ctrl+A | Select all |
Ctrl+I | Invert selection |
Ctrl+V | Clone selected Object |
Ctrl+C | (this is not copy!)(in perspective viewport) create target camera using the curent view. |
Ctrl+X | eXpert Mode |
Ctrl+Z | Undo |
Ctrl+Y | Redo |
Ctrl+LMB(click) | Add clicked object to current selection |
Ctrl+LMB(hold) | Marquee, Add multiple selected to current selection |
Alt+LMB(click) | Remove clicked object from current selection |
Alt+LMB(hold) | Marquee, Remove multiple selected from current selection |
Shift+LMB(click) | Clone selected/clicked object |
Shift+LMB(click+drag) | (with move selected) Clone and move selected/clicked object |
Alt+MMB | Rotate View |
Alt+X | Xray view mode |
Alt+Q | Isolates the selected objects |
Alt+w | Maximize viewport toggle |
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