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Contents

Defining regions ........................................................................................................70
Viewing statistics .......................................................................................................72
Working with Viewport Backgrounds .................................................................................73
Loading viewport background images .......................................................................74
Loading viewport background animations .................................................................74
Tutorial: Loading reference images for modeling .......................................................75
Summary ............................................................................................................................76
Chapter 3: Working with Files, Importing, and Exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Working with Max Scene Files ............................................................................................77
Using the Application Button ....................................................................................77
Starting new ..............................................................................................................78
Saving files ................................................................................................................79
Archiving files ...........................................................................................................81
Opening files .............................................................................................................81
Setting a Project Folder .............................................................................................82
Merging and replacing objects ...................................................................................82
Getting out ................................................................................................................83
Setting File Preferences .......................................................................................................83
Handling files ............................................................................................................84
Backing up files .........................................................................................................86
Tutorial: Setting up Auto Backup ..............................................................................86
Maintaining log files ..................................................................................................87
Importing and Exporting ....................................................................................................87
Importing supported formats ....................................................................................87
Import preference .....................................................................................................88
Exporting supported formats .....................................................................................88
Moving files to and from Maya and MotionBuilder ....................................................89
Using the OBJ format ................................................................................................89
Exporting to the JSR-184 (M3G) format ....................................................................92
Exporting to the DWF format....................................................................................94
Exporting utilities ......................................................................................................95
Tutorial: Importing vector drawings from Illustrator .................................................96
Using the File Utilities .........................................................................................................98
Using the Asset Browser utility ..................................................................................98
Finding files with the Max File Finder utility ...........................................................100
Collecting files with the Resource Collector utility ..................................................100
Using the File Link Manager utility .........................................................................101
Using i-drop ............................................................................................................101
Accessing File Information ................................................................................................102
Displaying scene information ..................................................................................102
Viewing file properties ............................................................................................102
Viewing files ............................................................................................................103
Summary ..........................................................................................................................104

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