• Understand the Autodesk 3ds Max interface components

Main 

Toolbar

; a shortcut menu will be displayed with the names of all toolbars, as shown in Figure 1-8. 

Next, choose the required toolbar; the chosen toolbar will be displayed on the screen. Also, you 

can hide any of the displayed toolbars by choosing its label from the shortcut menu. 

The 

Main Toolbar

 provides quick access to many tools and dialog boxes such as 

Select and Link

, 

Unlink Selection

, 

Select Object

, 

Material Editor

, and so on. This toolbar is docked just below the 

menu bar. You will learn more about the tools available in various toolbars in the later chapters.

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