Quick Tip: Assigning Hotkeys & Making Custom Menus In 3d Studio Max

Quick Tip: Assigning Hotkeys & Making Custom Menus In 3d Studio Max

on Jul 21st 2012 with 5 comments
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This entry is part 12 of 13 in the Productivity and Building a Better Workflow Session
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One of the most important steps in building a better, faster workflow is the addition of Hotkeys. These simple shortcut commands might only shave seconds off at a time, but in the long run those seconds can add up to hours. In this quick tip from Chandan Kumar, you’ll learn how to save time and work more efficiently by creating your own custom tool menus right inside of 3ds Max’s UI, and how to setup keyboard shortcuts for the tools you use most.

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My name is Chandan Kumar and I am a CG and VFX artist/trainer from India.  

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  • http://fantasy3d.blogspot.co.uk/ Ben H

    Really useful, I didn’t know about custom tool menus.

    Thanks Chandan!

  • http://www.vfxrider.com Chandan Kumar
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    Thanks Ben to like this.

  • http://pankajrgohel@yahoo.in pankajrgohel

    this one nice tutorials for king snow in max. uploads new lights tutorials for student

  • phanikumari

    thanks for the tutorials. it helped me to learn 3ds max very well.

  • amrita

    thnx alot very useful