Random Tutorials

A random selection of tutorials

Options for Creating Objects

There are a number of ways of creating the three main elements of a landscape scene, surfaces, edges and objects, each one demending an understanding of the creation methods and tools at hand. This tutorial shows you how.

Popularity: 17.11 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 111,385

AutoCAD 2010: Basic 3D Editing with Grips & Gizmos

This tutorial follows on from the 3D Primitives tutorial and describes how 3D solid objects can be edited using grips and gizmos. Running time: 11min 53sec

Popularity: 13.01 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 77,203

Pavement Ramp and Car Park

A ramp surface created in a previous tutorial is rotated down to meet the bottom steps and the geometry edited to fit the steps. A car park is also formed using splines snapped to existing geometry.

Popularity: 5.34 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 34,791

Transforming Objects

Transforming objects means changing the position, size or number of an object without altering the integrity of the geometry itself. MAX offers a host of transformation tools to do these tasks. This tutorial gets you started.

Popularity: 17.19 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 111,920

Stage 1: AutoCAD Drawing

In stage 1 on this project, surfaces are created from an accurate landform mesh made from 2D and 3D polylines using Quickscape surfacing routines.

Popularity: 13.96 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 90,759

The Interface

This tutorial gives a brief explanation of the MAX interface items commonly used and introduces you to the important areas of the interface.

Popularity: 16.16 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 105,590

Creating Selections from Image Masks

This simple 7-step tutorial describes the best method for using the images supplied in the CADTutor Image Bank.

Popularity: 10.26 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 73,679

Animation

Design visualisation animation generally involves animation of cameras in walkthrough, panaround or flyover movies to give the client a much richer and more informative view of the design. This tutorial covers the basics.

Popularity: 11.65 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 75,837

Editing and Saving Materials

Once materials have been created and edited in the Material Editor to suit a particular scene they no longer need to be kept in the Materials Editor. Materials can be saved in material libraries and retreived for use in any other scene. This tutorial shows you how.

Popularity: 17.36 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 112,967

AutoCAD 2010: 3D Array

This tutorial introduces 3D Array tool and covers both Rectangular and Polar arrays. Despite the fact that it doesn't have a neat dialogue box, like its 2D cousin, 3D Array is pretty easy to use and can be used to create some impressive results. Running time: 3min 34sec

Popularity: 8.29 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 48,411

Local Navigation

AutoCAD Tutorials

3ds Max Tutorials

Options

Featured Tutorial

AutoCAD 2010: The User Interface - Part 3

This video tutorial completes your guided tour of the AutoCAD 2010 user interface. Running time: 4min 04sec