Attached Link: http://www.dsmith.gmaxsupport.com/Essential_Tools.htm

Again- I'm not a modeler, but if you are interested in MAX but don't want to spend the bucks, you can always get GMAX, its MAX Lite (and has no renderer) but its free! I've played with it and it looks just like MAX to me, minus the bells and whistles. GMAX comes with a number of games, and if you follow the link you can get lots of export modules to take your GMAX models out and into other apps like Poser, etc. Best results are obtained using 3D Explorer as an intermediary step...