where's my gizmo?

[jasoooon]

Hi
since a few days my gizmo has "disipeard" in max
i can still rotate, move, scale but only in the direction of the view
so when im in top view i can only move within the xy axis
im finding it realy anoing, i have reinstalled max, but didn't change
can someone tell me what i did wrong?

i attatched a picture where u can see that my move tool is on but cant see the gizmo

Thx anyway

Jason

[Cad64]

Reinstall should only be used as a last resort. Your problem is a simple one. Just hit X on your keyboard. X toggles your Gizmo display on and off.

[jasoooon]

thx very much

need to learn some more hotkeys

Jason

[Cad64]

Max has about a million hotkeys and key combos, and there are plenty more that you can customize yourself, but these are the most important ones that you should really make a point of learning. :thumbsup:

F2 – Shade selected faces toggle
F3 – Toggle between Wireframe and Smooth + Highlights
F4 – View Edged Faces
F9 – Render last rendered viewport, or, in case of the first render, render selected viewport.
F10 – Opens the Render Scene window allowing you to set rendering options.

Q – Select
E – Select and Rotate
R – Select and Scale
W – Select and Move

D – Disables the viewport
G – Hide/Show Grid
H – Select by Name
J – Show Selection Bracket Toggle
M – Opens the Material Editor
O – Adaptive Degradation Toggle
V – Open view shortcut menu
X – Transform Gizmo Toggle
Z – Zooms in on the current selection

CTRL-A – Select all
CTRL-D – Deselect all
CTRL-C – Create camera from viewport
CTRL-V – Clone object
CTRL-X – Toggle Expert mode

ALT-C – Cut
Alt-L – Select Edge Loop
ALT-Q – Isolate Object
Alt-X – Display As See-Through Toggle

SHIFT -E / ALT-E – Extrude poly
Shift-Q – Quick render, renders selected viewport.

Spacebar – Selection Lock toggle

1 - Vertex selection mode
2 - Edge selection mode
3 - Border selection mode
4 - Polygon selection mode
5 - Element selection mode
7 – Polygon counter
8 – Open Environment and Effects Dialog

F – Switch to the Front viewport
T – Switch to the Top viewport
L – Switch to the Left viewport
R – Switch to the Right viewport
P – Switch to the Perspective viewport
B – Switch to the Bottom viewport
C – Switch to a Camera viewport

[jasoooon]

thx, i'll print those out

I'm in my second year of architecture now and we haven't learned anything about max, and a little bit about autoCAD, but 90% off the stuff you just have to learn your selve.
So i'm having sometimes quite a hard time finding my way in these programs, but luckly there is...THE INTERNET:)

Jason