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Viewport - Hotkeys and Solutions

Hover over viewport window in 3DS Max and click alt+w to get into your selected viewport and out of selected viewport

Hotkeys for each of the four important viewports (perspective, top, front, left)

G - HIDES GRID

Z - ZOOM EXTENTS (fit objects to view)

 (THIS ONLY WORKS IN PERSPECTIVE; YOU MUST CHANGE PHYSICAL CAMERA OR MAKE SURE PHYSICAL CAMERA IS NOT ON.)

T - Top
B - Bottom View
R - front view
L - left view
Alt+W - see all viewports
Alt+W+cursor - enter viewport
Middle Mouse panning
Scroll - Zoom
alt-middle click - orbit

alt-q - isolation mode

 s -p exit out of snaps

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