Shortcut list-3Dsmax and some tips

Hitchhiker

Hello folks.
First of all I'm most likely not a member with a big name on here but i wanna change that and most of all i wanna help newbies to learn 3Dsmax since i know how hard it was for me-so i made this ''most Importand 3dsmax shortcuts cheat sheet'' with the default hotkeys of 3Dsmax.
I will write it down here and also give you guys a Download.
Have fun Learning .

Q………………………...............................Select
W……………………………………………………Move
E……………………………………………………..Rotate
R……………………………………………………..Scale
Alt+A……………………………………………….Allign tool
1……………………………………………………..Edge
2……………………………………………………..Border
3……………………………………………………..Polygon
4……………………………………………………..Element
Alt+W……………………………………….Wievport maximisation
Alt+B……………………………………………….Backgound image
f2………………………………………………….Facing mode toggle
f3…………………………………………………….wireframe toggle
f4…………………………………………………….show wire toggle
7……………………………………………………..Statistics
Alt+X……………………………………………….X-ray
Crtl+V……………………………………………..Clone
Shift+Drag……………………………………….Clone/Copy
Shift+Crtl…………………………………………Chamfer
Alt+P……………………………………………….Cap
Alt+Crtl+C……………………………………….Collapse
Crtl+C……………………………………………..Cam from view
Alt+C………………………………………………. Cut
Shift+X…………………………………….Edge constraint toggle
Alt+E……………………………………………Extrude along spline
Alt+H……………………………………………..Hide poly
Shift+G…………………………………………..Hide Geometry
G……………………………………………………Hide grids
Alt+I……………………………………………….Hide unselected
Alt+Q……………………………………………..Isolate selection
Crtl+Rmb………………………………………..Modeling
Crtl+N…………………………………………….New scene
Alt+N………………………………………………Normal allign
Crtl+O……………………………………………..Open file
U……………………………………………………..Ohrtographic view
P………………………………………………………Perspective view
Crtl+E………………………………………………toggle scale modes
Crtl+A………………………………………………Select all
Crtl+D………………………………………………Select none
Crtl+Z……………………………………………….Undo operation
Shift+Z…………………………………..Undo viewport operation
Alt+U………………………………………………Unhide all
V…………………………………………………….allign to view
G…………………………………………………….allign to grid
Shift+A……………………………………………Attach
Crtl+D…………………………………………….Detach
F…………………………………………………….Flip normals
P…………………………………………………….Make planar
Crtl+W……………………………………………Weld
!!!Blue marked hotkeys work only in edit poly mode!!!



Download link

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/0jw5vmvrgaesbcq/3Dsmax-%28importand%29Shortcuts-Cheat-Sheet.pdf?dl=0

SuperFranky

Some of those hotkeys aren't really good. Like Shift+Crtl. Some things like graphite tools use these keys and combinations of them extensively, mapping something else to them will probably break this functionality...

Ott

You should alter any hotkey that requires you to lift your left hand off the keyboard / mouse. Things like "Alt+P" are horrible for efficiency. Do your absolute best to remap everything to be almost exclusive to the left side of your keyboard.

Hitchhiker

@SuperFranky @Ott yeah you guys are right

Goeddy

well its the default shortcuts, so its not realy his fault.

but yes default shortcuts suck pretty bad.
also this is missing the most important shortcut: SPACE to lock scene