I totally agree.  I am seriously considering abandoning 2010 and reverting to 2009 and this is one of the 2 or 3 big reasons why.  (others being lack of Nvidia Performance driver, and goofy interface changes).

--3ds Max Design 2009 64bit, Direct3D 9, Win Vista Premium 64, 3ghz quadcore Xeon, Quadro FX1700--

this viewport problem is only reason why i still work in max 2009. it slows me more than new modelling tools can speed up…
f.

+1 from me: Fix this soon. I will stay in 2009 until its fixed.

Samab 17 July 2009 06:52 AM

I’d like to draw your attention to this poll

Good idea. I see no one like this “new Feature"…

My company just buy 2010 license. So I’m obliged to use 2010. But I prefer 2008 for the viewport and less bugs…

And for the Quadro performance driver? Nothing…

...and another vote from my side as well
Does actually ANYBODY from Autodesk read these threads and polls? It’s a bit annoying that such a fundamental and really time consuming feature can’t be fixed easily. If Autodesk is not willing to do so please let us know as well. Because then I need to recalculate all of my upcoming jobs and have to get prepared to explain to our clients why the same job now takes longer AND therefore costs more money…
p

My god this bug is annoying, why on earth did Autodesk change the way viewports work? Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. What used to take one keystroke now takes more than 2 - awesome progress

This shouldn’t even need to be on a wishlist - it used to work absolutely fine and is now broken

FIX IT!

I agree, it needs to go back to the way it was. For those who like it as it is (there are 2 of you, after all), just set 3 viewports to user, maximize the remaining vp, then you will have 2010 vp behaviour. There was no reason for AD to do this, as it wasn’t on any wish list, and AD heasn’t responded to explain the change, so it was just somebody’s missguided brainfart.

any news to this for max 2012 ?

jedie 11 March 2011 07:28 AM

any news to this for max 2012 ?

Nothing changed in 2012 :(

See and vote here: http://area.autodesk.com/forum/t55137

You would be much better off reading this blog, signing up, and voting somewhere where AD will actually take any notice of the votes cast. Really no need for another poll thread on this subject.

https://autodesk.uservoice.com/fo...keys-doesn-t-re?ref=title

Max 4.2 through 2014, Composite 2014.
XP-64 (SP2).
nVidia 9800GTX+ (512MB) (Driver 314.22).
i5-3570K @ 4.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.