If you make any primitive, put a modifier on it and collapse the stack, you're left with an Editable Mesh. Honestly, I don't know who even uses Editable Mesh nowadays. I suppose it should be an option to work with Editable Mesh/Poly by default.

But one of the things I do a lot is start with a primitive, say a box, then add modifiers on it (say Turbosmooth, or bends etc), then collapse it to have a poly object to work with. Only it gives me a Mesh, and I have to take an extra step each time to make it a Poly.

In shaded mode, when you link an object to another object, the new Parent object flashes a selection bracket when the link is made. This provides good feedback that the link operation has successfully been made and provides clarity as to which object you've selected as your parent (which is important in complex scenes).

This feedback does not exist in wireframe mode. In wireframe mode, it is very unclear that a link has occurred correctly. I tend to use the select Ancestor hotkey to confirm that my link has happened correctly.

I'm pretty sure it used to be that the parent object would highlight briefly as selected to indicate the link operation completed successfully. I'm not sure which version of Max broke that, but the current functionality isn't nearly as usable.

When importing OBJs there's a Unique Wire Color checkbox. This is fine if that's what you need. Turning it off though seems completely useless. Here's what the help says on it:

"When off, each object is assigned the same wireframe color, picked at random."

That last part is the problem. It picks a color at random, and it's a real pain for organizational sake. Since we do organize by colors, our options are either random or... random.

It would be real cool if it could just remember the last color the user has set. So say I make an object in the scene, and assign it a white color. Every OBJ imported from that point on (assuming the Unique Color box is unchecked) should be white until I manually change some object's color to something else.

There is a lot of space between the names of the objects in the Scene Explorer. This means you have way fewer objects in the window than you did with the old Selection Floater. In the old selection floater, you had 2 pixels between names. Scene explorer:7 pixels. This means where you could display 100 objects on screen with the Selection Floater, you can only display 72 names in the Scene Explorer. I'd like to see the names brought much closer together, so for scenes with lots of objects you can see more of their names onscreen at any one time, which also allows for faster scrolling in the dialog and faster selection.

Go here for more info:
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_tools/cg_wishlist/3dsmax/wishlist_se_compact.htm

When setting up many cameras in batch renderer you currently cannot clone a camera many times and quickly edit the output path information. You can change the camera and view name easily enough but to change the output path you have to delete the cloned one, open up the 'save as' dialogue box (which by default opens in your previous batch render save location) then navigate to the new folder and pick a file name and format. If you are doing this with 20+ cameras it can be very time consuming.

It would be much easier if you could simply click on a view and edit the files 'save as' information in the output path the way you can with the view name.

If this isn't possible then at the very least make the 'save as' dialogue box open at the cloned output path location so you don't have to navigate 20 times to the same file location.

When setting up a mr Area Spot, when you change the height or width of the area light, you see a viewport icon of the size.

However, the moment you stop changing the light size, the icon disappears. This makes it very difficult to get a good idea how large your area light is without having a light selected and changing it's value. And this makes it impossible to visualize the size of multiple different area lights at the same time.

I'd like a checkbox added called "Show Icon In Viewport" which when checked will keep the display of the icon on all the time in the viewport.