Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 2319

The three-color world-space tripod is visible in the lower-left corner of each viewport. The colors correspond to the three axes of world space: red=X, green=Y, and blue=Z. The axes are labeled in these same colors. The tripod always refers to world space, regardless of the current reference coordinate system. The world-space tripod is on by default. To turn off this feature, see "To turn off the world-space tripod in all viewports" in the following procedures. Viewport Tooltips for Object Names When you're working with objects in a viewport and pause the cursor over any unselected object, a tooltip appears with the name of that object. If you need to select something or link to something, wait until you see the tooltip to be sure you have selected the object you want. These tooltips are disabled when you work in sub-object mode. Tooltips on page 7744 are on by default. To turn off this feature, see To turn off object name tooltips on page ?, below. See also: ■ Viewport Navigation on page 7585 ■ The 3ds Max Window on page 67 Procedures To make a viewport active, do one of the following: 1 Click any viewport. If you click an object in the viewport, it is selected. If you click a space where there are no objects, any selected objects are deselected. 2 Right-click any viewport. Right-click activates a viewport without changing the selection state of objects. (You can also do this by left-clicking the viewport label.) To switch between single and multiple viewports: Activate the viewport you want to minimize or maximize, and do one of the following: 1 On the keyboard, press the W key. 7574 | Chapter 25 User Interface