Help me, I'm a Max user in Maya and i'm loosing my marbles.

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First and foremost, this isn't a Max vs. Maya post so keep reading please.
I like both programs, somewhat...

Aight, so i'm dying a little here I need to know how to do 'X' in maya that i'd normally do in Max.
I've searched and searched, but when there's a colossal fuck tonne of posts about maya pre like 2005 it gets hard ya feel?

2 things off the bat that's making my cry,
Is there a script/method im overlooking to unify isolation to all viewpoints? So i want to isolate selected and have it isolate selected in each viewport.

Secondly, and this one i'm loosing sleep over.
The bevel tool...What...the...fuck.... There's got to be a reliable way to bevel without it fucking my day up.
A script, some tricky options only a seasoned maya vet would know of.

I'm sure i'll come across more

Thanks

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Alright for the isolate across multiple views i found a script;

http://www.seneve.de/downloads/mel.php?lang=en

It throws some errors at me when i use it, but it still seems to work.

Now for that cheeky bevel.