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Essential Skills Movies

Opens a dialog that provides access to movies for learning the essentials of using 3ds Max. If you are new to 3ds Max, these movies can be a good way to start learning concepts before you look at the more complex tutorials, or begin a larger project.

How-To Movies

Opens your Web browser with a page with links to learning videos. The How-To movies cover more advanced concepts than the Essential Skills movies, but they are shorter and take less time than the 3ds Max tutorials.

Learning Path

Opens your Web browser to a page of resources for learning how to use 3ds Max.

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Tutorials

Displays the online tutorials for 3ds Max.

What’s New

Opens 3ds Max Help to the new features section.

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MAXScript Help

Displays the MAXScript Help online. See About MAXScript.

Additional Help

Opens a dialog that lets you choose to display the help for installed third-party plug-ins and for add-on products from Autodesk.

By default, this command looks for additional help files in the \help subdirectory. That location might have changed if you've edited plug-in path settings. See 3rd Party Plug-Ins Path Configuration.

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Keyboard Shortcut Map

Opens a Web page with a Flash animation that shows default keyboard shortcuts.

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Data Exchange Solutions

Opens your Web browser to a page about software for exchanging data among applications.

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Customer Involvement Program

When activated, lets Autodesk collect anonymous information about your usage of 3ds Max to help us improve 3ds Max. No personal information is collected. Choose whether or not to participate, and then click OK.

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3ds Max on the Web

Displays a submenu whose options display Web pages with additional information about 3ds Max, customer involvement, product support, and so on.

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Activate 3ds Max

Starts the 3ds Max registration wizard, which lets you enter a new license authorization code. For example, you need to reauthorize 3ds Max if you're changing from a trial license to a permanent license.

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License Borrowing

If you are using a network-licensed version of 3ds Max, use the commands on this submenu to borrow or return a license. For details, see the AutoCAD License Borrowing help, which is available as the file acad_brw.chm, installed in the \program files\common files\autodesk shared\enu folder on your local drive (typically, drive C:).

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Diagnose Video Hardware

Lets you determine whether your system supports certain display-related features. See Diagnose Video Hardware.

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About 3ds Max

Displays copyright and license information about your copy of 3ds Max.