Getting to know 3Ds Max Design
•  Introduction & Touring
•  Working with object
•  Getting the view you want

BASIC MODELLING & MODIFICATION

Introducing 3Ds Max Objects
•  Understanding standard primitives
•  How 3Ds Max sees object
•  Making clones that share properties

Creating shapes with splines
•  Drawing with splines
•  Modifying a shape
•  Outlining and Extruding splines
•  Combining & extruding Splines

Editing Meshes and Creating complex Object
• Creating opening in a wall with Boolean Operation
• Tracing a sketch
• Editing meshes
• Using instanced Clones
• Attaching object to mesh
• Creating & modifying object using Box Modeling

Working with external Design Data
• Creating Topography with splines
• Setting up an AutoCAD Plan with 3DS Max
• Importing AutoCAD plans into 3DS Max Design
• Exploring the File link manager

Creating AEC Objects
• Creating a parametric wall
• Adding Doors and Windows to wall
• Changing Elevations with stairs
• Setting boundaries with railings
• Adding foliage to a scene

Organizing & Editing object
• Naming Object
• Organizing object by layer
• Lofting an object
• Using noise modifier
• Extruding with the sweep modifiers
• Aligning objects

Light & Shadow
• Lighting your model
• Rendering a view
• Ambient light
• Shadow effect
• Playing in the shadow
• Using the light Lister
• Using scene states

Enhancing model with Materials
• Understanding bitmap texture maps
• Adding material to object
• Understanding Material Libraries
• Editing Materials
• Understanding Mapping Coordinates
• Using standard Material
• Map scalar modifiers
• Adding Entourages
• Assigning materials to part of an object
• Exploring the Autodesk Materials
• Modeling with Displacement Maps