Ok, so sorry for all these questions and im trying to limit them to as little as possible and only asking the ones i am really stuck on. Anyways i have looked through mayas help stuff and searched for keywords.. but ok this is where i am at. I have a body thats very weird in shape and i want to attatch it to the hips. Now The hips have a good cylinder type design and are smaller than the body so i deleted the top faces of the object and i want to attatch it to the body. But the best way i can think of doing this would be to use a split poly tool and make edges in the same shape as the hips on the body (by the part i want to attatch) yet i dont want to eyeball this and just be "trying" to make a correct match. Now this is my question

Can I duplicate edges and then attatch them to another object? So can i duplicate the edges of my waist, and then attatch those to my body so that i can then delete out the middle of those faces and attatch the verticies? Thanks.