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When working on projects with many objects, you often need to switch between different Selection Filters to easily target the right category of objects — for example, selecting only Geometry, or only Lights. The problem is that this action is normally only accessible through the mouse, via a dropdown on the toolbar, which is inconvenient and breaks your workflow if you need to do it repeatedly.
3ds Max doesn’t natively support assigning hotkeys to switch the Selection Filter. To work around this, you can use a custom MAXScript that creates individual commands for each filter type, then bind hotkeys to those commands using the software’s built-in Hotkey Editor.
Once set up, you can switch filters instantly with a single keypress, making your modeling workflow noticeably smoother and faster.
