Hi,
In revit there is an instrument called Section Box, which allows a 3D view to access the inside of the model without modifying it, it is like a kind of box with a series of arrows that allows you to manipulate it to cut the model and observe the part that we Interests.
Is there a similar instrument in 3ds max?
No such concept exists in max, mostly because max is a poly modeller and doesn't use solids (which make stuff like this easier but come with their own set of limits). While there is for example scalpelMax from Cebas, it's not aimed at realtime scene scope management, although you could maybe try and use it for that. The only thing that sort of comes close to what you wanted are clipping planes. There's both viewport clipping and camera clipping, out of the two, the camera one might be more intuitive. You can setup a camera with near and far clipping planes active and whatever is in front or behind those planes won't be drawn in the viewport.
@Swordslayer - this type of "isolation" would be better handled by dividing the models into logical pieces, correct? Not much point loading an entire building if you only need to be working inside a single room.
Yeah, there are quite a few ways to go about it, could be selection sets in conjunction with isolate mode, layers, xrefs, containers etc. The clipping approach limits scene navigation quite a bit, though I cannot say I haven't used it before, sometimes it's rather convenient.
