When mirroring an object or elements of it, max flips the faces / normals.
To reset the matrix you have to apply a Reset xform and flip the normals. This should happen automaticaly without having to collaps the whole stack of the object

Need a sphere (and ellipsoid) where the topology is in quads, avoiding the singularity at the poles.

Inseting a polygon currently creates a new poly for each edge of the original polygon with generally useless UV's, often when I am Inseting a Polygon I simply want the original UV's to remain intact on the original edges that existed. the inset should carry over to the UV's in a similar fashion

In Max 2010 and later Swift Loop ONLY slides entire loops. It should act only on selected edges (as long as they form a loop).

Sometimes I need to move a vertex to an other vertex's position. But the source and the target vertices are not in the same object, so I can't use the align tool. I think the best way is two button near the coordinate spinners. A "copy coordinates" and a "paste coordinates" button.

When selecting for example meters as a system units, spinners and many tools in freeform mode (extrude, inset etc...) are too sensitive when creating smaller objects, making them impossible to work with.

The cut tool gives you a preview with a changing icon to tell you whether you are connecting to a face, edge of vertex. Problem is, it isn't always telling the truth. You think you are connecting to a vertex only to later discover that you just missed it and therefore created the cut in the face near the vertex resulting in extra unwanted vertices. The preview icon is not in sync with what actually happens. I find I resort to turning on vertex snap but it should work as advertised.

When you create a new polygon, say by extrude, or just simply clicking an edge and shift-dragging out a polygon, it gets no smoothing group assignment by default.

So I find myself constantly extruding polygons, selecting them, then assigning a smoothing group.

It should just inherit the smoothing group of whichever polygon it originated from. In the case of a new polygon that was created without extrusion, it should get the group of its neighboring polygons.

Please make a check box to show assigned smoothing groups on a model. I work on models with many smoothing group numbers assigned. There is no way to visualize the different smoothing groups on the asset without clicking on and off the numbers in the smoothing group dialog box and trying to remember which area is assigned which smoothing number. It would be great if you could check a box toggle that would show the different smoothed regions in contrasting colors or maybe little visual numbers projected representing each group.

Extrude Modifier should have an option along which axis to extrude (right now, it always uses z axis)

Please make soft selection work with the freeform ribbon 'Drag' function.
The way it is now, we can SEE the soft selection, but it has no effect.

There are several areas in 3ds Max that have an option to 'Ignore Backfacing' (e.g. Edit Mesh, Edit Poly, Skin). This option should be saved in 3dsmax.ini and then be used consistently by all functions.

This invaluable problem solving tool is only available in Editable Mesh & Edit Mesh modifier.

Make it possible to REALLY rotate the local coordinate-system of an object. So it has an impact on extrude direction, loft axis etc.

The ChamferBox incorrectly smoothes across it's edges because of the interpolation of surface normals. This causes the flat sides of a ChamferBox to always appear slightly curved.

Switch to the last (Last used transformation or selection tool) and not to move when using cut, swift loop etc...

By default when using select tool -for example- and need to add swift loop after using the tool it doesn't switch me back to my last tool (select tool ) it switch me to move tool? why is that? even when using cut and some other tools
so please make ot switch to my last transformation or selction tool before using it

- Box segments are limited to 200 per side
- Sphere and Geosphere segments limited to 200
- Normalize Spline modifier does not go below 1.0
- Teapot maxes out at 64 ;-)

the loop function should recognize it when two edges in a row are selected and select only the edges between them.

additionally it would be great when this would work with faces and vertices as well