Useful Keyboard Shortcuts in 3ds Max
Below is a list of keyboard shortcuts that help speed up workflow and efficiency. It’s always a good idea to try and use the keyboard over mouseclicks as it saves a large amount of time.
A - Toggles the Angle Snap tool on/off
B - Changes the active viewport to “Bottom” view
C - Changes active viewport to ‘Camera’. If multiple Cameras are present a selection box will appear to choose desired camera
D - Disables the current viewport. Very useful for highly complex scenes when higher performance in other viewports is required
E - Select and Rotate tool
F - Changes the active viewport to ‘Front’ view
G - Toggles grid on/off
H - ’Select by Name’ window is displayed
I - Centres active viewport to mouse position
J - Show or hide selection brackets
L - Changes the active viewport to ‘Left’ view
M - Opens Material Editor Window
N - Toggles ‘Auto Key’ on/off
O - Toggles Adaptive Degradation on/off. If performance becomes too slow, objects will be shown as boxes to maintain good fps
P - Changes the active viewport to ‘Perspective’ view
R - ’Select and Scale’ tool
S - Toggles ‘Snap’ tool on/off
T - Changes the active viewport to ‘Top’ view
U - Changes the active viewport to ‘User’ view
W - ’Select and Move’ tool
X - Show/hide Gizmo
Z - ’Zoom Extends’ all objects selected. Very useful tool for working on one particular object, or for resetting the perspective camera.
6 - Opens ‘Particle View’ Window
7 - Shows polygon count of selected object(s)
CTRL+A - Select all
CTRL+C - In Perspective viewport camera is created from current view
CTRL+I - Select Inverse
CTRL+V - Opens ‘Clone Options’ Window to copy/instance objects
CTRL+X - Expert Mode (Press again to leave Expert Mode)
CTRL+Z - Undo
CTRL+Y - Redo
ALT+X - Toggles X-ray view on/off for selected objects
ALT+Q - Enables ‘Isolation Mode’ for selected objects
ALT+W - Toggles between full screen viewport view and multiple viewport view
Thank you for reading this, and I hope you will find it useful. Tim.