draw polygon strips on the 3d space?

Hi

So the retopo mode has a great way to draw strips of polys on the surface. Is there a way to do that but in the 3d space?

3DS MAX has a great plugin to do that, it calls 3dtools.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hAUSVwoUBiM

Are something like this available in nvil?..

Thanks

EDIT:

So i just try it out with retopo mode in 3d space and it works great. but it would be nice if it would be an option to constraint the poly strips to Z,X or Y and to merge the edges with out any additional click just like in the video.

I too would love more options for freehand modeling strips of polygons, and find the 3ptools implementation very nice.