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Rotate and scale objects

Rotate and scale objects - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Rotate and scale objects

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We saw the Select and Move tool for the position transform. Now let's look at the other two transforms which are Rotate and Scale. And they will also be found here on the main toolbar. We've got Select and Move, Select and Rotate, and Select and Scale. You'll see the tooltip there says Select and Uniform Scale. We'll get back to that in a moment. First let's look at Rotations. Activate the Select and Rotate tool. And click on an object such as this chair. And we get a manipulator, or gizmo, which is once again color-coded. The X, Y, and Z axes are represented in red, green, and blue. If I wanted to rotate around the Z axis, or the elevation axis of the world, then I would click and drag on this blue circle on the orb. Click and drag on that blue circle to rotate around the Z axis. We see we're getting numerical updates there in our viewport. And we also see that the values are updating in the transform type in area. I can click and drag on the x-axis or the y-axis. And as before, I…

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