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2. Click the POV label of the upper-left viewport, select Top, and then click Zoom Extents. The
view changes back to the original top view. Notice that the chairs are still in shaded mode.
3. Click the Shading Label of the Top viewport, and then select Wireframe.
Three of the viewports show wireframe views of the chairs. Wireframe views are often bet-
ter for many types of editing operations. Wireframes also redraw faster when your model is
very large and full of complex geometry. Another type of view, called a bounding box, is even
faster than a wireframe view, but bounding-box views reduce the representation of objects to
rectangular boxes. The Edged Faces mode, available when the viewport is in any of the available
Shaded modes, displays both the Shaded mode and the edges of the visible objects.
Besides changing the way the viewport displays your model, wireframe view also gives you
control over the layout of the viewports themselves. The following exercise shows you the vari-
ety of layouts you can create in 3ds Max:
1. Choose Views  Viewport Configuration. The Viewport Configuration dialog box
appears, as shown in Figure 1.62.
Figure 1.61
Two of the four
viewports are
now Perspective
viewports.
Figure 1.62
The Viewport
Configuration
dialog box
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