I havent tried it but if your isolate select is on a shortcut you could probably add this code in front of the isolate code. So your shortcut runs this then isolate. Though shelving it is easy as well. It continues to work until you close maya, then you will have to run the script again.
I've seen this bug in Maya LT 2016. There is a scriptJob that runs which tries to add newly created components to the isolation but it fails hard at doing so correctly. Try running this script: [code] setIsolateSelectAutoAdd("modelPanel4", 0); setIsolateSelectAutoAdd…