Users can now only display the manipulators for the active level of the modifier stack that the user is on (instead of displaying all possible manipulators).Compressed Scene File Save Performance has been optimized to be almost two-times faster than before thanks to a new archiving library, multithreading, and other optimizations.They include shortcuts for Stitch, Pack, Grow, Shrink, and much more. New user-requested keyboard shortcuts have been added for the Unwrap UVW modifier.In addition, its accuracy is also greatly improved, especially when using various marquee-style selections, such as rectangle, circle, and freeform.

Improvements to Occlude Selection, including a speed boost of up to three times.Smart Extrude now allows for a partial cut-through on an Editable Poly object.3ds Max 2023 includes MAXtoA 5.1.0 which introduces new features, bug fixes, performance optimizations, and production improvements.A new mode has been introduced to the Physical Material called Autodesk Standard Surface Compliant.glTF Material & Exporter add support for using glTF materials plus the ability to export 3ds Max files as compact.A new Autobackup toolbar has been added to the default user interface in 3ds Max.

Retopology Data Propagation allowing the user to view the input and output mesh results of the retopology action.

Retopology Pre-processing allowing users to handle larger amounts of data with less setup and preparation by enabling the Remesh option as a pre-processing step.

Autodesk has announced the release of 3ds Max 2023.

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