A chamfering tool that does quad only chamfers would rock!

Like this little plugin:
http://www.vg2max.spb.ru/EdgeChEx.htm

Maybe this is related to the Catmull-Clark style mesh smoothing.

This subdivision method would have a number of advantages...
Compatible Smoothing With Mudbox and Maya
Adaptive Tesselation at Rendertime
Really nice Creasing

The unwrap editor is painfully slow. If you have more than a few thousand triangles displayed it is almost impossible to do any editing with slow redraws and updates. I think before any more updates are made to features you need to update the performance. What is the use of having features if it takes 1 minute plus to drag a face selection>

When creating a line, you cannot see it's length or angles. It would make life a lot easier when this would work more like Modo, which is showing the length of each segment to the side of that segment, and when starting a new segment, it will show the corner with the previous segment.

Having the ability to keep the Unwrap Editor open at all times would greatly speed up the UV editing work flow. And since UV editing is such a big part of creating 3D assets, that would be a big savings for many users.

enhancing viewport canvas to be something like maxon bodypaint, (with faster responce when using bigger textures, with projection things from part of image to a object, etc..)

applying a turbosmooth or meshsmooth to a low resolution object then in turn smooths the UV's. This creates all kinds of texture distortion and bleeding. Is it possible to integrate a better form of smoothing or texture swimming such as we see in XSI.

The graphite modeling tool "Symmetry tools" is great idea. However it doesnt work properly. Its not as accurate as must be. Make it into a modifier or put it in the edit poly modifier and make it more intuitive.

This would be a great addition to the workflow for morph targets on heads for example.

Look at ZBrush´s symmetrical modeling.

wish there's an option in max to make extrude works the way expected as shown in this link...

http://www.subhendu3d.com/thirdpartyimages/cube-extrude-animated.gif

right now that requires alot of manipulating and fine-tuning specially for architectural work... so please give us the option to extrude thing in that manner

The current cage system isn't always the best system when modeling. A modeling system where you can work with the smoothed Isioline NURMS vertexes in the editable poly would greatly enhance productivity.

Push modifier is great for many things in vfx - in conjunction with other modifiers it can be extremely powerful and useful. Its major fault tho' is that it doesn't stop pushing when two faces collide - instead, you got crossing polygons. If it stopped pushing polys when they collide it would become terrific.

Get miauu's Work Plane and give us "work plane" like in Revit and Autocad.
Check this amazing script:
http://miauumaxscript.blogspot.com/p/commercial-scripts.html

Whatever enhancements the chamfer tool may or may not find in coming versions, it would be nice to have the option to add a stack-selection modifier to the stack. This would be a nice, non-destructive way to edit edge roundness that can be changed easily after the fact.

Please Add to 3D Studio Max as part of the software the script: WrapIt. It is the best solution for retology.

http://www.matt-clark.co.uk/wrapit/

What I really miss in max is something like paint effects seen in maya. Very handy for creating vegetations instantly instead of going through scatters and all. I always switch to maya and export the paint effects from there. It will be very helpful something like that with good library and default mental ray materials

Please make it possible to freeze the seam vertices in one axis perpendicular to the mirror (so you could move them in Y and Z, but not X).

This should be an option in the symmetry modifiers 'Parameters' rollout ("freeze seam in X,Y,Z").

As the title says. Shift + Drag a spline vertex should extend it, like shift + drag an edge in edit/editable poly extrudes. I miss this a lot, and would make working with splines much better and faster.

EPHERE had also started such a scripted plugin on their own some time ago. This will be very valuable addition to the existing toolset for working with hair&fur.
Multi threading is a must when it comes to lots of furry objects. Improved material and rendering, especially with mental ray will be very welcome.

Have a box, select half polygons and do a bevel local normals. Box has straight lines so the new polygons has to be straight!!!

An option for Ignore Backfacing, ignoring what is behind the selection rather than only ignoring if it's facing in the opposite direction.