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Open from Vault 389

Inter face

TheOpenFiledialoghasstandardWindowsfile

open controls. At the right, the Thumbnail area

shows a prev iew of the scene whose file name is

high lighted in the list on the left.

Tip: You can resize the dialog by dr ag ging an edge

or a corner.

Clicking the plus button appends a sequence

numbertothefilenameyouentered,orincrements

the sequence number if the name already has one,

andthenopensthefileofthatname,ifitispresent.

For example, if you have highlighted a file named

test00.max, clicking the plus button changes the

name to test01.max and then opens test01.max.

Opening an Obsolete File

When opening a scene created in an earlier version

of3dsMax,youwillseeanObsoleteFiledialog.

If you resave the scene, you will overwrite the file.

Youcanstilledititusing3dsMax,butyouwillno

longer be able to edit it in earlier versions of the

software.

Don’t display this message—When turned on, you

wi ll not see the Obsolete File dialog. The dialog

is also controlled by the Display Obsolete File

Message switch on the Customize > Preferences

>Filespanel.

Note: If you sti ll need to open the scene using an

earlier version of 3ds Max, use File > Save As (page

3–391) and save the file using a different name.

Thenyouwillbeabletoopentheorginalfilewith

the earlier version.

Open f r om V au lt

File m enu > Open from Vault

The Open From Vault command lets you open

a MAX file directly from Autodesk Vault, the

data-management provider included with

3dsMax. Thisallowsforsecurecontroland

versioning of as sets used in the digital-content

creation process without the need to use t he Vault

client.

Note: Open from Vault appears on the File menu

only if you installed the Vault plug-in, an optional

part of the 3ds Max software installation