Section, close spline, face extrude, shell, keep animation

Hey guys,

I have the following request, ive made this piece by using Section from the standard Object types.
http://renascent.nl/_x/sectioning/sectioning.jpg

After sectioning your shape you get the tedious job of closing all splines before you can face extrude and shell it.
So thats one thing id love to see automated, especially the closing of splines.

For the main event though id love all of this to be possible on an animated object.
However adding any modifiers ontop of Section will stop it from updating and also the Section needs to move slightly on an axis to Update: When Section Moves.
http://renascent.nl/_x/sectioning/animatedsection_preview.avi

Any help would be awesome, or maybe theres already something similar out there?

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this script works pretty well

this script works pretty well for my first problem
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/contour-generator

now to get it in motion...

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