obj comes in as a single object so Separate won't work and Mesh Extract was what i was talking about when i said to extract faces.The only other option is to import separate obj's .
I don't play with objs made up of multpile combined objects much but I just created and exported a model from modo as obj, then imported it into maya and, as you say, it comes in as a single (combined) object.
However, I then successfully used mesh > separate to split it into all the individual poly objects.
Is there something special about his VW model from lightwave that I am missing?
Can you attach the model because now I am curious to see this behavior where you can have a obj made up of individual objects but cannot separate them?
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