Innovator, I would say Aldaron is right and wrong. True as you say you don't have to add a modifier to resize etc. However if you do a non-uniform resize at the end of a stack, you have to reset transforms or collapse all to meshes before saving as 3ds, I'm not sure if that's what Aldaron was trying to say, but there is a similar operation that needs to be performed in almost every app in the same situation so it's not just Max!

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