When you start a design from scratch, you literally start with a blank piece of paper. Earlier in this training manual the use of Maxsurf was compared with a creative process like painting. Imagine that a painter wants to paint a portrait of a person in front of a backdrop of trees and mountains. How and where should the painter start painting? He can choose many different ways and each painter will chose differently. This is very similar in Maxsurf: the designer has a vision of a design and a blank piece of paper (or 3D space). His creativity as well as a good knowledge of the tools available to him will enable him to achieve his vision step-by-step. The order in which he does things and the tools he uses along the way are not pre-defined and can not be learnt from a book. This section of the training manual teaches you one particular way of starting a design from scratch and teaches you the use of several design tools along the way. This will help you achieve your vision of a design in your own creative way.

Start with the Starting a Design section.