Maya face duplicate fix? (merging without effecting UV edges)

Maya face duplicate fix? (merging without effecting UV edges)

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Maya face duplicate fix? (merging without effecting UV edges)

20023546
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Hey I made a dumb mistake when modelling, I've duplicated a whole group of objects but they're somehow in the same object group, so you (I think) can only select one group by individually double clicking on face mode. So I tried grabbing all the vertex's and pressing merge which works BUT then all my UV's reset and every edge gets cut up. Is there a way for me to delete / merge them all together without it automatically cutting up all my UV's?

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I've somehow duplicated all the faces so its all in one object so I can't just grab the duplication and delete it, I have to individually click on all the faces. (all overlapping in the exact same position) 

 

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This is what I usually do, grab all vertex's, edit mesh, merge, and everything is solved.

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But because I was UV unwrapping at this stage, merging all the vertex's gets ride of the duplication but cuts up all my edges, how do i go about this, fixing my face duplications but keeping my original UV's. Cheers

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Mickey-G
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If I understood the problem, you can duplicate your mesh, so you keep the UV map in that mesh. Run cleanup/merge verts on the new mesh and then copy the Uv's from the Old to the new with Mesh>TransferAttributes for the UV's in world space.