Syllabus
Week 1
Course
Introduction
Weeks 14
Thanksgiving
Holiday
Week 16
Final Project Due
Week 3 Notes
Basic object creation & parameters
- Crash Course 1 - Object Creation
The Create panel
Standard and extended primitives
Create by mouse
Keyboard entry
Object parameters
Standard primitives
Extended primitives
Splines
Object selection & display
- Crash Course 1 - Selection Tools
Naming objects
Select tool, select by name, add to selection, remove from selection
Window/crossing, selection flyout
Hiding and freezing objects
Isolating objects
Selection sets
Groups
Transforms
- Crash Course 1 - Transforms
Coordinate systems
Transform gizmos
Move, rotate, scale
Transform type-ins, absolute/offset mode
Using snaps
Align
Clone
- Crash Course 1 - Duplicates and Clones
- Copies, Instances, References tutorial at Area
Mirror
Array
- Creating Arrays video at Area
Basic modification
Modify panel & modifier stack
- Crash Course 1 - Modifiers
Bend modifier
Taper modifier
Twist modifier
Melt modifier
Noise modifier
Relax modifier
TurboSmooth modifier
Shell modifier
Sweep modifier
- Basic Modifiers (Sweep) at Area
Symmetry modifier
Extrude modifier
Bevel modifier
Other parametric modifiers: Ripple, Wave, Lattice, Skew, Spherify, Push, Squeeze, Stretch
Assignments:
- Read Chapters 3, 4, and 5 in the Visualization Curriculum Student Workbook. Complete the exercises in the chapters for extra practice.
- Create a wide narrow plane, and an extruded star. Make sure they both have several segments. Copy the plane 3 times and the star 9 times, and move them so that they are arranged as in the image below.
Leave the original objects alone, and apply a different modifier to each of the copies. Remember that some modifiers work better with different shapes.
- Find an image of a piece of furniture that you like (try looking at furniture store websites). Create the piece in Max. Insert the image and the rendering of your Max model on a single page Word document to compare them. Bring both the printout of the Word document and the Max file to class next week.