3ds max Polygon Modeling Using the caddy to set options for an inset polygon I'll choose inset settings, and the caddy appears in the center of the viewport, but we can click on the little textured horizontal vertical line there and drag that over, and now we can actually see this little bit better. And the inset tool options are displayed. The only thing we really care about is the inset amount, which is here. Let me just type that in. I'll put in a value of 0.3 centimeters. and to see a preview of that, press the Enter key. And now we're seeing the inset polygon, and it's .3 centimeters away from the original polygon. Now, if I press Enter when we don't have focus on this entry field, if I click off of that and then press the Enter key, the action will actually be performed, and that's the same as clicking on the checkbox here. The difference is if I press Enter, then the command is performed and the tool exits. If I click on the OK or checkbox here, it will also perform the command and exit. And there's also a little plus sign here. If we click on that, then the command is performed, and then we will be ready to perform another command of that same type. So if I click on the plus sign here, then I get a kind of weird result, because now what we're seeing is the inset polygon has been created and then the newly-created inset polygon is having another inset applied to it. So at all times when we're looking in the viewport here while the caddy is up, what we're seeing is not the current state of the model. We're actually seeing a preview of what it will look like after this command is performed. That does take a little bit of getting used to, and the only exception to that is if nothing is selected. So if I click out here, nothing is selected, then we seen no preview. If I select some other polygon, now we see an inset polygon there. All right so that's how the caddy works. If you just want to perform the command, then choose OK. If you want to perform the command and then perform subsequent commands of the same type, then press the plus sign. And you want to exit without performing the command, just use the X button here. All right, we've created our inset polygon, and we can exit out of sub object mode. That's how to use the caddy to access the options for tools in editable poly.
