Max often becomes very sluggish as we all know. There should be a tool in Max which lets you see the processor usage broken down in a meaningful way. It would let you see if one object or one script controller or one modifier (like Skin) is causing an unusual amount of overhead. It would be similar to the Task Manager for windows, specifically the Processes Tab.

I'd like to see a modifier tab and a create object tab added to the ribbon because actually we must use both command pannel and ribbon :-( Gavin created the super ribbon. He did something that can be quiete integrated as it is !

No vote anymore by my side so just one vote ...

It would by nice, if protractor tool would measure angles between edges or faces, not pivot points. It is achievable, but You must do some things first though (put objects together, move pivot points. etc.).

We are a visualisation company. Our system units are always 1 unit = 1 meter, but quite often, our scene units are mm. If we create a 'small' object (a primative or a shape less than 100mm), we must create the object much bigger than we need to and then manually resize it to the small size we need, otherwise it just disappears. Very, very annoying.

We need an functionality that collapses just the selected modifier

Everyone has their own preferences for their favorite objects and modifiers. For example, I very frequently want to create cubes that have 3 segments in each direction. Or when I apply a UVWMapping modifier I want it to default to box mapping. I suggest adding the preset system from the compound objects into every object and modifier. Also, when you save a preset, it should also create an ini file in a presets directory in max that can be edited by hand, which would allow for easily sharing and modifying those presets.

Go here for an interface mockup.

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_tools/cg_wishlist/3dsmax/wishlist_presets.htm

Right-click, then u will see Quadmenu which has 2 at the top, 2 at the bottom. Plz make it to n menu. Hence people can create new fresh menus as many as they like to store shortcut tool they wish to categorize . Make it at least 4 menus. Maya has menu along the mouse. Make nMenu with Save menu for next version. Thank you.

Whenever right-clicking out of some other operation the cursor goes into move mode by default, making it easy to accidentally move something when selecting it.

There should always be the possibility to revert to legacy UI, like going back to legacy Caddies, material selector etc...

I think there should be checkboxes to enable or disable new design features such as these, in the "Customize user interface" menu.

It would ne really great to have a tool which allows to randomize the transformations and parameters of multiple objects. Neil Blevins wrote an awesome script for randomizing transformations. Randomizing modifier parameters of multiple objects would be also really nice.

It would be nice if you could have an option for the "Select by material" tool to select all objects with different multi/sub materials with that material within them.

For all existing and upcomming node based tools there should be an unified and intelligent designed interacting node Interface. Existin Tools to unifiy are: Slate, Scematic View, PFlow.
Following should be added:
Node based scripting and wireing (similar ICE or MotionBuilder relation contraint), Render management (like RenderFlow).
Especially Renderflow has a way better method for defining render-contetnt than the SceneState system.

there is a big lag after pressing the button or the hotkey "h", it would be nice to get faster response:)

It would be nice to be able to set view controls to extra mouse buttons without using external software.

Double clicking on a group opens the group up. Perhaps double clicking on an open group closes it

- It would be nice to see if the selection lock toggle is on, the snap type, selection category (lights, geometry, etc) right next to the gizmo.
- Other information could be sub-object level, etc. This could be customizable to have the info you mostrly need.

I would like to have a tweak tool which moves/rotates/scales the selection in screenspace by pressing a key.

It would be also ok for me if it would be possible to get and set the active axis of the gizmo with maxscript. this would allow me to create my own tweak tool :)

In Maya you can press "g" to repeat the last action, whatever that may be, I think it would improve the usability and speed things up if implemented in 3ds max.

Say I connected two vertices, then I select two more and could just press "g" to connect those two. Its useful if you need to do something multiple times and you dont have the action bound to a hotkey.

pretty self explanatory but, here we go.

a spreadsheet editor where you can open a spread sheet, and put any properties of your scene objects lined up as a spread sheet .

the main advantage of this is selecting multiple objects at the same time from list and changing a property of them numericly. it is like mass editing in your scene.
it is like this:
http://www.scriptspot.com/bobo/darkmoon/sse/spreadsheet03_01.gif