How to import DWG file (mm) in 3ds Max (inches)

Hello Friends

              Some of the Max users face this problem that is they make their drawing in mm units in Autocad and in 3ds Max they intend to work in feet and inches. What they have to do is  simply Rescale it in mm only not in inches from the Import dialog box in 3ds Max. Some users change the Rescale to feet and inches; which will make the drawing 25.4% larger than actual..So Rescale in mm only.

After importing you can set the system units to Feet w/fractional inches and My system unit setup is also set to inches.

Tip of the day

Just Hold down CTRL when creating  a sphere, cylinder, teapot, etc. will allow you to rotate as you create.

Tip of the day

 Hi friends ,
 If the objects are looking like this in your viewport;

 you might have accidently pressed Alt+X 
that it is under See-though or X-Ray mode.

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Tip of the day

Hi friends
Just try this one.
Hold down CTRL when creating a box, pyramid, plane, etc. will create an object with even length/width. 

Tip of the day

 To stop an object turning grey when freezing it,

 uncheck the 'show frozen in grey' in the object's 

porperties window. 

How to Move in 3ds Max

Shortcut keys used in 3ds Max

Max File fails to open

Some of my Max friends have the problem of Max  file gets corrupted or file fails to open..I have two choices either  to merge it into an empty scene or look for an autoback file. And still if it does not get recovered,, You have lost your work :-(

Anyways for the future safety you guys can do one thing i.e save using the little + button on the "save as" function under the file menu. What this does is saves sequential Max files but just changes the number to the next in line.Now you will have many copies of a scene file and if the last file you were  working  on is corrupted, you  can a least get back to the file prior which has 95% of the work you were  working on anyway.

Good Luck

Quote of the day

"Nothing can truly hold us back from becoming who we want to be - we choose our fate, and every excuse is just another nail in the coffin."

Shortcut keys

Press Shift+F to display the “Safe-Frames” Clips viewport to correct render output aspect ratio.

Thought for the day

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows...Never fear shadows, they simply mean there's a light shinning somewhere. 

Shortcut key

'J' Removes annoying selection brackets 
around your objects. 

Thought for the day

Don't let your fear of the past affect the presence of your future. Live for what tomorrow has to bring, not what yesterday has taken away

F12 will bring up the keyboard input window for the currently selected transform tool allowing precise values to be used. 

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The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

Shortcut key

Press the 7 shortcut key to toggle on/off viewport statistics showing frame speed and poly count.

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Competing with yourself makes you better. Competing with others make you bitter.

Competing with yourself makes you better. Competing with others make you bitter.

Shortcut Keys

Good Morning Friends, 

In Today's post I have some very interesting short cut keys to hide or unhide the max stuff (real time saver)

just try them...

Shift+g=hide/unhide geometry

Shift+s=hide/unhide shapes objects

Shift+c= hide/unhide cameras

Shift+l=hide/unhide light objects

Shift+w=hide/unhide space warps

Shift+h=hide/unhide helper objects

Thought for the day

Live life like a pair of walking feet. The foot that is forward has no pride and the foot behind has no shame. Because they both knows their situation will change!

Tip of the day

If you want  to make an object see-through in the viewport.




 just Press Alt+X.




 or Right Click>Object Properties>

Display Properties>See Through.

Quote of the day

Mistakes are often made to learn a lesson; but if you keep making the same mistake; what lesson have you learned? You cant get through the book of life if you're always stuck on the same page.

Shortcut Key

Holding 'Ctrl' while panning in the viewport, zooming or even using the spinners will increase the speed at which they work. While holding 'Alt' will decrease the speed. 

Thought for the day

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

Object at zero Point

If you want your object to the zero point in 3D space right-click the move tool and then right click the spinners.

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Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.

Shortcut keys in 3ds Max

Hi friends 

just check some awesome shortcut keys for the quad menu.

Ctrl+Right Mouse Button=Modelling mode

Shift+Right Mouse Button=Snap mode

Alt+Right Mouse Button=Animation mode

Alt+Ctrl+Right Mouse Button=Lighting and Rendering

Quote of the day

The grass ain't always greener on the other side, it's green where you water it.

Refine option of Editable Spline

Refine option of Editable Spline is used to add vertices to a spline.To use this command just click on a spline where you want the new vertex to be added.

Chamfer option of Editable Spline

Chamfer option is much like the Fillet option except that the corners are replaced with straight line segments instead of smooth curves.It creates an angular corner on a spline and maintains hard corners.To use this command either drag on a vertex or enter a chamfer value. 

Quote of the day

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.