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Contents

Chapter 4: Customizing the Max Interface and Setting Preferences . . . . 105
Using the Customize User Interface Window ....................................................................105
Customizing keyboard shortcuts .............................................................................105
Customizing toolbars ..............................................................................................107
Tutorial: Creating a custom toolbar .........................................................................108
Customizing quadmenus .........................................................................................109
Customizing menus ................................................................................................112
Tutorial: Adding a new menu ..................................................................................112
Customizing colors .................................................................................................113
Customizing the Ribbon ...................................................................................................114
Making dynamic tools and panels ...........................................................................115
Saving Ribbon changes ............................................................................................115
Tutorial: Building a Ribbon panel of primitives .......................................................115
Customizing Modify and Utility Panel Buttons ..................................................................117
Working with Custom Interfaces ......................................................................................117
Saving and loading a custom interface .....................................................................118
Locking the interface ...............................................................................................119
Reverting to the startup interface .............................................................................119
Switching between default and custom interfaces ....................................................119
Configuring Paths .............................................................................................................120
Configuring user paths ............................................................................................121
Configuring system paths ........................................................................................122
Selecting System Units ......................................................................................................122
Using Custom and Generic units .............................................................................123
Handling mismatched units ....................................................................................124
Rescaling world units ..............................................................................................124
Setting Preferences ............................................................................................................125
General preferences .................................................................................................125
Files panel preferences ............................................................................................127
Viewport preferences ...............................................................................................128
Gamma preferences .................................................................................................132
Other preference panels ..........................................................................................134
Summary ..........................................................................................................................134

Part II: Working with Objects 135

Chapter 5: Creating and Editing Primitive Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Creating Primitive Objects ................................................................................................137
Using the Create menu ............................................................................................137
Using the Create panel ............................................................................................138
Naming and renaming objects .................................................................................139
Assigning colors ......................................................................................................140
Using the Color Clipboard ......................................................................................142
Using different creation methods .............................................................................143
Using the Keyboard Entry rollout for precise dimensions ........................................145

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