VolumeSelect Crashes MaxScript when Modify Panel is Not Active and/or Other

[Anonymous]

Anyone got a workaround for the following problem/conditions?

In Max 2012, the following script will work fine as part of some function:

v = volumeselect level:2 type:0 method:0 volume:0
addmodifier obj v
select obj

v.gizmo.scale = [1,1,1]

In Max 2014, it will throw an unknown system exception and crash if the Modify panel is not active!  Max itself  doesn't crash, but the script does.

Even worse: in both Max 2012 AND Max 2014, the following script will also throw unknown exception if the Modify panel is not active:

select obj
volSel = volumeselect level:2 type:0 method:0

addmodifier obj volSel
volSel.volume = 3
volSel.Node = boxVol

Notice the one that breaks in both 2012 and 2014 is using a node as a volume.

The second script can be fixed to not crash by changing it to this:

select obj
volSel = volumeselect level:2 type:0 method:0

addmodifier obj volSel
volSel.volume = 3
max modify mode
max create mode
volSel.Node = boxVol

But, of course, making the modify panel active makes the script dog slow.  It takes 100x longer to get any processing done.

Anyone got a workaround for this?

This seems like an awfully major bug that Autodesk needs to be working on.