Just tried the scripts and they work only on a library of function that is outdated and no longer available anyway planned for max 4 ... so is there another way atm ?
This one's pretty old, but it might work? http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/copy-replace Do a search for "reference" on Scriptspot to find more.
If you're up to the scripting, this algorithm works great: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/java/3d/incremental.html Unfortunately I can't share my implementation.