Are there any nice simulation type tools that would let me connect the ends of wires to objects and then drag and move the wire around in a similar way to how you would move cloth in marvellous?
Why not do it in marvelous? Just make a thin cloth strip, then skin wrap a spline to it.
I was hoping for something within the max viewport just for ease of use. It seems the Nvidia PhysX Plugin for max will let me do this