3Ds Max 2024 - Beginner - First Steps

Start learning how to use 3Ds Max 2024 to create 3d models. Learn the basics of navigating the interface and the common modelling tools to start modelling in 30 minutes.
Feel free to ask questions below!

[@TenderKiss86]

More informative than my class videos! Thank you!

[@anielabadescu]

Love it, you're tone of voice expresses so much patience and it's so easy to follow your explanations. Thank you! 👏

[@JokesOnYouMEMES]

I really liked this tutorial, very informative and straight to the point. As a begginer it all looked very confusing at first and now it doesnt look like that as much at least. Thank you for sharing!

[@moo_92]

This was incredible thankyou. I got down most of this stuff in lessons however some of this stuff i didn't understand and you explained it really clearly and i have a grasp of it now

[@olik136]

I am more used to autocad and fusion.. and 3Ds Max feels like shaping dry sand with your hands.. this video is a very good starting point to understand the UI, which is different to anything I ever had to use.. mainly because the most important tools are hidden in the tiniest menu and everything is labeled with actual words and not with pictograms like every other piece of software I have ever used..

[@maryammuhammadzakari9328]

Thanks

[@iceclaw557]

these time stamps for me are because i learned blender before coming here these are sort of what i translate them as;
3:00 adding shapes
5:00 moving around and rotaing
7:40 focusing on an object
8:40 using the basic move and scale tools
14:05 messing with lights
16:00 showing the faces (u can also press f4)
17:16 subdivide and un-subdivide (basically changing the amount of polygons in an object)
18:30 edit mode (ctrl to select multiple faces, edges ect)
21:50 edit tools such as extrude indent/inset ect
--- 25:57 adding extra edges

[@iceclaw557]

my uni is making me learn this as part of my course, as someone who has come from blender i can see quite afew similarities, btw ur voise it very soothing, this was a nice tutorial :D

[@sagarlembhe4147]

you are teaching level is very superb its simple and logical . Thank you for this ............ A lot detail knowledge than class .

[@sohailpsoc]

i really liked how you explained every single thing thanks alot

[@solidak]

thanks for the tutorial bro its great

[@youcefzaouali5636]

I dowloaded the trial version of 3ds max and I'm glad I found this tutorial very informative for absolute beginners like myself.

[@krushnachandra4903]

i am using 2025 version and I am having a different interface

[@Mr_Joshua_R]

Brilliant, easy to follow and highly recommend :)

[@catalinsandu3844]

Hi Adam,
I just wanted to thank you for making this tutorial. I've been using Sketchup for most of my professional life and was always afraid of jumping to 3Ds Max because I thought it's a nightmare to switch. I know these very first steps are just the basics but your tutorial is making things seem much more tangible than what I was imagining.
So thank you and looking forward to following all your tutorial videos!
Catalin

[@SAINTBEATZZZ]

Same here, transitioning from sketchup😂. I'm scared man😅

[@AdelHaiba78]

Thank you, just got it and I was looking for a beginner, Regards.

[@d_Howard]

Oops! I must really be a beginner! I have no idea how to pan around, etc.
dang...
Maybe I need a special mouse. My mouse wheel doesn't "click down".

[@منى-ك8ك]

Can you put the link of the project u're working on please 🙏🏻

[@DelanoreTroupe]

what is the Zed key?

[@richardvalent27]

Really nice starting tutorial! Thanks.

[@Adriano168]

Thank you! =)

[@pjmclenon]

hello this is not a begin guide--you dont show what you do with the cursor pointer mouse and by the 20min mark you are zipping away so fast notexplaing what you forget this