Overriding default settings

[lwjacob]

I've being doing some research and couldn't find my answer. That's why I'm asking here.
How can I override the default settings of Max?

Some of the changes I have to do EVERY TIME:

* Changing the home grid from 10mm to 1000mm;
* Activate angle snapping;
* Zoom out, because I model stuff bigger than 1000mm. Max thinks that I'm going to work with something with 10mm;
* To configure the Render Setup, by changing it to my personal preset;
* Pressing "J" and "F4" in the perspective view.

Another great thing would be having a default scene to work with. Like a bended white plane and pre-configured lights.

These are stuff that would be great to have by default when opening Max's shortcut.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Jacob Allgayer

[Steve_Curley]

Open Max
Make all the above changes, save the scene as Maxstart.max in your default scenes folder. That scene is automatically loaded when Max starts, or when you do a File > Reset.

Note that if you make use of the Project Folders feature you will have to manually copy (or load and resave) that scene in the new (project-related) scenes folder.

Notes.
The "home grid" has nothing (directly) to do with sizes. Altering the grid will not change the scale of the scene. You should be looking to the System Units (and possibly Display units) in Customise > Units Setup.
Angle Snap setting should be retained in Maxstart.
Zoom - saved in Maxstart, though if your System Units are correct this may not be necessary, you'll just have to try various settings and see which work best for you.
"J" and "F4" are also saved in Maxstart. They mirror the settings in the Viewport Configuration dialog. Note that they are per viewport, not global.
Maxstart is a normal Scene, so any objects/lights you create (prior to saving it) should be restored automatically.

[lwjacob]

Steve, thank you so much!
I've being having this issue for so long.

[tony]

You can set your Maxstart user defined path to an absolute location and put your Maxstart.max file in there.  That way you don't have to keep copying your Maxstart file to every project folder you use.

Customize>Configure User Paths... > File I/O tab > MaxStart > Modify

I have a scenes folder inside my Max's runtime folder and my Maxstart.max file in there.  My MaxStart user path is absolute and pointed to that runtime scenes folder.