I'm currently working on hard-surface modeling in Max and am looking for tools that would assist in my workflow. Recently I stumbled upon SyncViewS' GetVertNormalsFromFace script which would be extremely and reduce the tedious activity of manually editing vertex normals one face at a time. However, I'm having trouble…
Oh snap. This totally solved my problem. I had a feeling that the answer was right in front of me, and I wasn't using the script the right way. Thanks a lot.
So maybe you tried this, but you didn't say. This is a MacroScript definition. You run the script once to install it. Then you go to Customize | Customize User Interface | Keyboard | Category | Normal Tools to bind it to a hotkey.