Create a model with parts instead of singleton

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Hi all,

Is there a way to force a model to be generated with parts instead of as a singleton?

I’m trying to export a model to a 3rd party software that prefers .obj’s in parts rather than one giant file. I have a model that’s 200M polys which was originally generated as a singleton. It seems large enough to have been split up automatically. 

Would prefer not to have to split it manually (mostly because I’ll probably mess something up).

The only potentially relevant setting I see is “Force single part mode” in “Depth map calculation” settings, and that’s set to False.

 

Any suggestions? 

 

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hello Tim, and was this model generated with this setting turned off?

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Hi Lucia,

I haven’t changed this setting before (didn’t even know it existed until started looking around for this issue). So I’m assuming it was set to False originally, but can’t be 100% sure. 

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then I would go for the parameter ‘Save mesh by parts’ set to to True in the Export Model dialog

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I tried that in the beginning. It seems to only export by parts if the model is made of parts.

A ‘sigleton’ seems to only get exported as one .obj.