It's very uncomfortable to switch between
Maya and
Max because of the different viewport navigation styles. Depending on the project I'm working on, I like to choose between Maya and Max or rather use both of them. Unfortunately, if I work with one of two softwares intensely, it's quite difficult to go back to the other one, because I'm prone to use the last navigation style. As said
here, I prefer Maya navigation style because it's fast, logic and easy to remember.
MEM's Max2Maya "is basically an alternate viewport navigation inside 3ds Max that tries to mimic maya's Alt + Click viewport navigation to some extent". Essentially MEM's Max2Maya is an excellent, free alternative of Switcher for 3ds Max, a commercial solution by digitalRaster.
I thought to use
autohotkey to achieve the same result using a script like
this one, but MEM's Max2Maya works fine with
3ds Max 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack, so why wasting time?
MEM's Max2Maya will install a global hook to supervise mouse and keyboard inputs and send them back to Max.
Best regards.