Tools Menu (Standard)

The Tools menu displays dialogs that help you change or manage objects, especially collections of objects, in your 3ds Max scene.

• Menu bar > Tools

Interface

Container Explorer

New Scene Explorer

Manage Scene Explorer

Saved Scene Explorers (when one or more scene explorers exist)

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Containers submenu

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Isolate Selection / End Isolate

Display Floater

Manage Layers

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Manage Scene States

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Light Lister

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Mirror

Array

Align submenu

Snapshot

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Rename Objects

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Assign Vertex Colors

Color Clipboard

Perspective Match

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Viewport Canvas

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Preview - Grab Viewport

• Create Preview Animation
• Capture Still Image
• Play Preview Animation
• Save Preview Animation As
• Open Preview Animation Folder

  Opens Windows Explorer to the folder where you last saved a preview animation.

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Grids and Snaps submenu

Measure Distance

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Channel Info

Mesh Inspector

• Activate Mesh Inspector

  When on, the Mesh Inspector is active. Default=on.

• Mesh Auto Repair

  When on, the Mesh Inspector repairs errors silently, without prompting for confirmation. When off, the Mesh Inspector displays the Mesh Inspector dialog when it finds Level 2 errors. Default=on.