Having never worked with Studio 3D Max before, I found that the basic controls were surprisingly easy to use with very useful library shapes to work with. The align tools helped a lot with making the different components fit together exactly (the perfectionists' dream).
The different viewports, although daunting at an initial glance, proved very user-friendly, giving me the ability to see various angles quickly.
With a little help, it also became possible to magically transform a cylinder into a triangular-based pyramid by manipulating the number of flat sides to 3. From this Modify menu, it also became possible to edit the number of height segments to keep the polygon count down, good practice when you have more complex shapes. As you can see from the various screen shots, the polygon count has decreased by removing unnecessary segments.
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