functionality with new exciting capabilities and also updates many existing features. This is
an important release with a long list of improvements and additions that will greatly impact
your projects whether you have been using 3ds Max for a number of years or are new to design
visualization.
Each new version of 3ds Max incorporates fresh and exciting tools to enhance your capabilities
and workflow while also increasing the performance of the program on your computer
system. Utilizing these new features is key to improving your skills and decreasing the time it
takes to complete your projects. To help you find information, 3ds Max Design 2011’s Learning Movies dialog box (see Figure 1.1) includes links to essential skills movies that teach many of
the basic skills for using 3ds Max, as well as links to movies that explain the new features and
additional 3ds Max–related tutorials. Note that if you don’t see this dialog box, you can go to the
