Originally posted by lisa_ching try using the hypergraph to reconnect the proxy mesh back to your smooth. Ctrl+drag the node to try to get it to connect with default attributes, if not, the connection editor will open. if that still doesn't work then i don't know ... just recreate the proxy i guess. It wouldn't take long at all... lisa, i already tried the first two methods that you are talking about. doesn't work. how would i recreate the proxy?? i don't know that one.