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Topic: orgin
Posted: 22.May.2011 at 13:23

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Posted: 22.May.2011 at 13:26

I have a real dumb question. how do you chage the orgin in 3ds max? I wish to creat splines or lines in the front view however i can only draw on the xy plane. I need to create in the xz plane.

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Posted: 22.May.2011 at 16:53

If you have your viewport set to "Front" then you are drawing in the XZ plane.

Front view = XZ plane
Top view = XY plane
Left or Right view = YZ plane

Just look at the little icon in the lower left corner of the viewport.

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Posted: 24.May.2011 at 11:05

As always I appreciate your help! I do realize what your are saying however I was in the front view trying to create a line that was not displaying when i realized that it was stuck on the xy plan in the top view. I wasn't until I created a plane in the left view that it allowed me to make a line in that view. I run into strange little quirks like this it seems.

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Posted: 24.May.2011 at 18:12

Let me put it this way. If i were to create a plane and then rotate the plane on the x axis 45 degrees, how can i create circles or lines on that plane?

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Posted: 24.May.2011 at 21:26

Use AutoGrid. This will allow you to draw splines or primitives on faces that are at odd angles.

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Posted: 25.May.2011 at 16:20

That will work. Thank you!

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Posted: 18.Aug.2011 at 08:53

rendermen wrote:

I have a real dumb question. how do you chage the orgin in 3ds max? I wish to creat splines or lines in the front view however i can only draw on the xy plane. I need to create in the xz plane.

Thanks

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Posted: 18.Aug.2011 at 21:15

I believe he has already been helped. Read the entire thread, not just the first post.

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