From the course: 3ds Max 2024 Essential Training

Choosing a workspace - 3ds Max Tutorial

From the course: 3ds Max 2024 Essential Training

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Choosing a workspace

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By default when you launch 3ds Max you'll see this welcome screen. If you don't want to see the information here then you can just turn the welcome screen off by turning off this checkbox and then we won't see this the next time we launch the program. I'll close that window. So let's talk about the 3ds Max workspace. What we're looking at here is the so-called default or classic workspace and that's the workspace or user interface we're going to be using in this course. There are a couple others you might want to check out. Up here in the upper right we'll see Workspaces in a pull-down list that says Default. If we switch this over to Design Standard, it'll take a moment for the interface to refresh, but once it does we'll see something that may be familiar to you if you're a user of other Autodesk programs such as Revit. We've got a ribbon up here that's got a whole bunch of icons. And again, this is most convenient if you're a user of other Autodesk programs. There's another workspace up here, which is the Alt Menu and Toolbar. We'll wait a moment for that to load. And this might be helpful because the menus here are actually a little bit more complete than they are in the default or standard workspace. So this is optional. I am going to be using the classic or default workspace. So I'm going to switch my workspace back over to default. If we look in this pull-down, we'll see there are a few other options. And there's also a window to manage workspaces. We can launch that up and see what that is. This gives us the ability to save and recall our own workspace settings. We can customize the workspace very easily in 3ds Max. We'll be covering this in other movies. But just briefly to show you, if you click and drag on one of these so-called grab bars or textured lines on a toolbar, then we can drag that toolbar out. And that's very helpful, for example, with this command panel because we can then take this command panel and place it on a secondary monitor. Okay, I'll drag that back over to the right and it automatically snaps back where it was. That's a little bit about the workspaces in 3ds Max.

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