3ds Max 2022.3 released with per-viewport filtering, improved pipeline integration, smart extrude improvements and more

Autodesk has announced the release of 3ds Max 2022.3. New features include:

• Improved pipeline integration to make it easy for studios to configure the software so artists can switch between tasks that require uniquely configured environments, including project settings, user preferences, scripts and plug-ins.
• The ability to filter what type of objects are displayed on a per viewport basis. Configuration is via the viewport menu or a dedicated icon and filtering can be toggled on or off using the keyboard shortcut Shift+K.
• A new advanced wood OSL map that includes presets for many common wood types including maple, walnut and oak.
• Enhancements to Smart Extrude that allow users to cut across multiple edge bodies on the same mesh, Additional improvements are included that improve cutting through non-planar poly and ngon faces.
• Scene file save performance has been further improved with promises of an additional speed boost of 25%.
• Arnold’s Tonemap Imager now LUTs and Arnold lights have new defaults that give better first render results, along with sticky settings that enable users to create lights with the same setting as the light previously created.
• When loading or merging a scene into 3ds Max 2022.3, orphaned layers and objects with no parent layers are now automatically recovered and can be interacted with once again.
• The Symmetry modifier has gained a new Slice Cleanup Threshold spinner that will allow users to further control the cleanup of vertices that are in close proximity to one another along the cutting plane before the Symmetry action takes place.
• The Unfold3D Peel action has been refined in the Unwrap UVW modifier to reduce UV distortions. An additional method has also been exposed to MAXScript that enables packing commands to operate with the Unfold3D algorithm, which will help in automation and tools development.
• The Chamfer modifier’s “Limit Affects” functionality has been updated to generate improved results on non-planar faces and non-collinear chamfered edges.
• Occlude selection marquee (box) selection actions can now be performed on the Poly component in the Editable Poly and Edit Poly modifier.
• Auto-Expand Selection in Explorers is now off by default to improve artists’ productivity by allowing them to set up separate views of their data through hierarchical representation in Explorers and spatial organization in the viewport.
• Show Selection Range in the Time Slider configuration is now on by default, making it easier to quickly scale the range of a selected set of keys.
• To assist animators who are working with complex rigs, the Viewline Length Absolute option of the LookAt Constraint is now disabled by default, and the “Viewline Length” is also set to 0.
• Importing models from SketchUp 2021 is now supported.
• Max can now be installed from hidden folders to improve deployment. 
• Safe Scene Script Execution prevents embedded in scenes from writing to folders that represent the 3ds Max and plug-in package installations and user-defined script and plug-in path.