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Defa ult K eyboar d Shor tcuts
Keyboard shortcuts are keyboard alternatives y ou
can use to initiate actions (commands or tools)
normally accessed with the mouse. For example,
to open the S elec t Objects dialog, you can press the
H key, or you can change the active viewport to a
view from the Bottom, by pressing B.Keyboard
shortcuts offer a means to let you work faster and
more efficiently.
Many keyboard shortcuts are already set for most
commonly used actions. If you want to modif y
or add new shortcuts, you can do this from the
Key b oard panel (page 3–837)
of the
Customize
User Inter face dialog (page 3–836)
.Keyboard
shortcuts are separated by
Groups
or
Categories
of
groups and they organize
Actions
.
Groups—organize the Actions f or which y ou can
set shortcuts. Default=Main UI.
Cat eg orie sofferafurtherbreakdownofthe
Actions in a Group to specific categories. This lets
you quickly find an Action so you c an assign or
adjust a shortcut.
Actions—are commands or tools.
Thetablesinthesetopicsshowthedefault
keyboard shortcuts. On ly shortcuts which are
definedbydefaultarelistedinthesetables;
however, you c an create a shortcut for almost every
command available in the software.
As the tables show, the keyboard shortcut system
has been expanded in the latest version of 3ds Max.
In most cases you can close a dialog with the same
command used to open it. In general this applies
to any combination of input methods, including
menu, toolbar button, and keyboard shortcuts.
For more information, see
Toggling Dialogs (page
3–718)
.
Note: Yo u c a n c r e a t e a t e x t ( T X T ) f i l e o f a l l t h e
actions and their shortcuts by clicking Write
Keyboard Chart on the
Keyboard panel (page
3–837)
of the
Customize User Interface dialog
(page 3–836)
. All actions that can have a shortcut
assigned to them are listed. For actions with no
defaultshortcutassigned,theShortcutcolumn
entry is blank .
You can assign and change default ke yboard
shortcuts in these feature areas:
Act iveShade Shortcuts (page 3–913)
Biped Shortcuts (page 3–913)
Biped Cur ve Editing Shortcuts (page 3–915)
Cloth Shortcuts (page 3–915)
Crowd Shortcuts (page 3–916)
Default K eyboard Shor tcuts