Hi!
Please add more details how and where you want to select/filter, but in general, yes Maya can do this.
Just one example: Select -> All by Type -> ...
Like there is a selection filter in 3ds max and there is a script too available, some one else wrote, in which you can bind shortcuts to like a geometry and shapes and splines and biped bone even cat bone too
Hi!
selection mask:
https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2019/ENU/?guid=GUID-E3DBC099-2E93-47F3-B7FA-A219DB72B4A7
...and you can create hotkeys for almost every command used in Maya, also for the selection mask.
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