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Viewport Labels
View ports are labeled in the upper-left corner.
You can control many aspects of a viewport by
right-clicking the viewport label to display the
viewport right-click menu (page 3–774) .
Dy namic R esizing of V iewpor ts
You can resize the four viewports so they are not
of equal proportions. To resize the viewports,
press and drag i n the center of the four viewports
on the splitter bars. Move the center to change
the proportions. To return to the or iginal layout,
right-click the intersection of the dividing lines
andclickResetLayoutfromtheright-clickmenu.
The new viewport prop or tions are saved in the
scene. However, they always reset when you
change the
viewpor t layout (page 3–899) .
Wo rld- Space Trip od
Thethree-colorworld-spacetripodisvisible
in the lower-left corner of each viewport. The
colors correspond to the three axes of world space:
red=X, green=Y, and blue=Z. The axes are labeled
inthesesamecolors.Thetripodalwaysrefersto
world space, regardless of the current reference
coordinate system.
The world-space tripod is on by default. To turn off
this feature, see “To turn off the world-space tripod
in all viewports” in the following procedures.
Vi ewport Toolt ips for Obj ect Na mes
When you’ re work ing with objects in a viewport
and pause the cursor over a ny unselected object,
a tooltip appears with the name of that object. If
you need to select something or link to something,
wait until you see the tooltip to be sure you have
selected the object you want. These tooltips are
disabled w hen you work in sub-object mode.
Tooltips (page 3–859) are on by default. To turn
off this feature, see
To tu r n of f o b j e c t n a m e to olt i p s
(page 3–774)
,below.
See also
View por t Controls (page 3–778)
Procedures
To mak e a viewpor t active, do one of the following:
•Clickanyviewport.
If you click an object in the viewpor t, it is
selected. If you click a space where there are no
objects, any selected objects are deselected.
•Right-clickanyviewport.
Right-click activates a viewport without
changing the selection state of objects. (You can
also do t his by lef t -clicking the viewpor t label.)
To switch between single a nd multiple v iewports:
Activate the viewport you want to minimize or
maximize, and do one of the following:
• On the k eyboard, press ALT+W.
•
Click the Maximize Viewport Toggle
button in the lower-right corner of the 3ds Max
window.
To r esize the v iewpor ts:
1.
Press and drag at the center of the four
viewports on the intersection of the horizontal
and vertical splitter bars.
2. Move the center to any new lo c ation.
3. To reset the viewpor ts, r i ght-click the same
point again and choose Reset Layout from the
right-click menu.