Hey everyone thanks for the responses, and cheers toast I'm just about to try those scripts out. I'm still struggling on #3, I tried your technique cdizzle, it doesn't seem to work. I guess I'll have to bind something to the slide edge tool.
I didn't see this mentioned as an answer for #3, and I only just recently found out about it myself. In order to constrain a vertex along an edge while moving it, you can use the 'C' hotkey - which is snap to curve. This will treat the edge as a curve, and you can then slide your vertex along the edge. For #2, people…
1. I'm not sure about separate faces, but you can set a custom axis orientation in the tool settings of the scale menu by click "set to face" and clicking the face whose axis you want to be on and then scale. Or you could use the extruse tool and then delete the edges of the original face after. 2. Don't use Max so I'm not…