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CHAPTER 1 GettinG to Know 3ds Max desiGn 2010
3. When the copies are in place, release the mouse button.
4. In the Clone Options dialog box, make sure Copy is selected in the Object group and
click OK.
The four chairs help to demonstrate some of the other selection methods available to you.
First, let’s look at another property of the selection window.
1. Click the Select Object tool, or right-click and choose Select from the quad menu.
2. Click a blank spot in the viewport to clear your selection set.
3. Click and drag the cursor from the point indicated in Figure 1.35.
4. Drag the rectangle up and to the right so that it completely encompasses one chair but
just a portion of two other chairs, as shown in Figure 1.35. Then release the mouse button.
Three of the four chairs are selected.
Notice that you didn’t need to enclose the chairs completely to select them. In the current
selection mode, you only need to have the selection window cross over the desired objects. This
is known as a crossing window. If you’re an AutoCAD user, this type of window should be famil-
iar to you.
You can change the way the selection window works by using the Window/Crossing
Selection tool. The following exercise demonstrates this.
1. Click on a blank area in the drawing in order to clear your selection set.
2. Click the Window/Crossing tool in the main toolbar.
Figure 1.35
Selecting points for
a crossing window
Click and drag from here to here
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