Been looking everywhere for a working nonquad, 5gon selecting script since I seem to have misplaced my last one. I looked on the Area and scriptspot and everything seemed to be outdated, not work or not do what I wanted if I could find anything at all. This did exactly what I wanted. It selected all 5gons and let me easily…
Hmmm never really used the Ribbon. I started working with max with probably 08-09? I looked for it, got inside an object to see what other options there were, but atm haven't seen an option to select nonquads in max2010 ribbon or ui customization. Looks like the Max help is just showing how to make a script? Well I have…
There's also a tutorial on how to do this in the MAXScript help files: http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/14/ENU/MAXScript%20Help%202012/files/GUID-6021C91D-405D-4DA9-81D9-02547B9D437-304.htm
It should appear in the selection tab in the graphite tools. Then you have select Non-quads in the first panel, or in the numeric panel at the end you can specify the exact amount of sides the face has then click the arrow.