I would like to see some new maxscript functions to clean up geometry.
meshop.removeVerts <Mesh mesh> <vertlist> - similar to polyop.remove() but for trimesh and explicit to verts.
meshop.removeEdges <Mesh mesh> <edgelist> - similar to polyop.remove() but for trimesh and explicit to edges.
meshop.cleanPlanarVerts <Mesh mesh> <facelist> <float threshold> - Remove any vertices that lie on the same plane as each other that add unnecessary geometry within the given face list.
meshop.cleanLinearEdges <Mesh mesh> <edgelist> <float threshold> - remove inner vertices on a chain of edges that are not necessary (leaving only outer two verts).
meshop.autoedge - Add new parameters to auto clean the results similar to cleanPlanarVerts and cleanLinearEdges above --so using auto edge can remove unnecessary vertices. For example, if you convert a Box with six segments per dimension to a mesh and use autoedge on it , you are left with 6 polygons with 218 vertices. Using the cleanPlanarVerts and cleanLinearEdges threshold the resulting mesh should be 6 polygons and 8 vertices.
These new/updated methods would help greatly with scripted modifiers.
