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Position, rotate, and scale objects

Position, rotate, and scale objects - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Position, rotate, and scale objects

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- [Instructor] Manipulating objects in the 3D scene is accomplished with the Transform tools. Transform is short for transformation, and that refers to position, rotation, and scale. We've got three buttons on the main toolbar. For that, we have the Select and Move, which is position, Select and Rotate, and Select and Scale. We'll start with the move tool. Activate that and click on any object and you'll see a tripod, that is the move gizmo. The word gizmo is American slang for some small device. The gizmo is a manipulator. We can use it to move the object in the three cardinal directions of X, Y, and Z in 3D space. If I click on the red arrow, then that's the X dimension or axis. I can move in the x-axis, I can move in the y-axis, or in the z-axis, which, in 3ds Max, is elevation. I can undo that by clicking on the Undo button. Also, if we click on the little brackets, we can move in two axes at once. If I click on the bracket here at the bottom X and Y, I can move in X and Y without…

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