Maya Starship hull plating (Madfish)

Foehammer

I'm a new Maya user coming from Max '09, and after fiddling with the new interface for a few days I've really noticed how much quicker the work flow is in Maya than it is in Max (personally), but I miss some tools from Max ..

Anyways, the cutting tools in Maya (Split Polygon, Cut Faces) both require an edge to work off of..

My question is: is there a tool or plug in I can download so I can freehand cut shapes into pre-existing poly's, like I could in Max and as is done in the Madfish's tutorial for making Hull Plating?

Or more simply, is there a technique that I could use in Maya that would work just as good?

Thanks for any answers

Haturod

You can use the Split poly tool and remove edges later... but I'd try and use the edge loop tool to the adjust the vertices in order to keep somewhat of a quad shape which I find easier to work with.

Dansolo1

Here's a stencil tool
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/modeling/poly-tools/c/jhpolystencil

Works miles better than booleans