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3ds Max, Hierarchy, drag and drop

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Did you all know, in Max, you can drag and drop the children parts 'onto' a parent part and they are linked?

* Turn on Hierarchy (Link) mode
* Select a part
* Click on it, holding down the mouse click button and drag to a part.
* Release

The parent part should blink brightly for a second and you are done. Turn off Hierarchy.

This saves you from going into the long parts list to find a part to link to. Saves me tons of time.

I do not know if you can do this in Gmax or early versions of Max. You might give it a try.


Bill
 
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Um, nope. In Max if you use the "Attach" tool you will merge the two bits of mesh into a single object. One uses the "Link" tool...
 
Roger that on 'attach' and 'Link'. I have edited that.

Key part I was trying to stress though is you can drag and drop your children to parents. Brilliant.... I wish I had known about that years ago. So much faster.
 
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