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SHORT TITLE FOR SUGGESTION/BUG/ENHANCEMENT REQUEST
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Zone Isolation Tool


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF YOUR REQUEST
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In Archicad I can use the marquee tool to quickly isolate an area
in the 2d window and jump to that zone in 3d. I don't have to select
objects then isolate them. I'd like to do this in max.

What about drawing a zone with a 'marquee' line (dotted?)
then viewing that quickly in camera or perspective mode?

Of course I'd want to render my view out.

Also, I would want to be able to highlight the cut line through
materials with another colour or thicker line.
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WHY THIS REQUEST IS IMPORTANT TO YOU
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If I had this 'zone isolation' tool I could quickly select areas that
I'm working on and focus on them, while ignoring irrelevant detail.

Also, I could create sections through buildings which is extremely
useful to do in architectural work.

I realise that some of this can be done via camera clipping but the implementation is a little clumsy (slow?) for me and I never use it.