Seperate Mesh Problem

[umut_uzunoglu]

Hello, I'm new to maya. I modeled building in Revit and for rendering and texturing I exported as FBX to use in may, everything worked perfectly until here, I wanted to assign texture to lamps but revit exported as single mesh, then I went mesh>separate command, it separated perfectly but every same lamp disappeared except my selection and at the outliner window all the lamp objects become transform node including the selection. 

Thank You.

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

Hi!

Are you using Instances?

This will not work as the single instanced mesh does not exist anymore after separate.

You need to create new instances then.

[umut_uzunoglu]

I don't think so,I imported directly FBX file, didn't do any special.

[mspeer]

Hi!

FBX does support instances.

Please provide the scene-file for further help.

[hamsterHamster · Accepted solution]

In the Revit, don't use any other character, except those consisting of Aa-Zz, _ and 0-9. FBX doesn't support acutes and graves, and replace with those lengthy unmanageable names containing *FBXASC0...... I'd suggest you to rename them to something short and readable, at least remove that FBXASC0-part.

As for the scene, it looks like @mspeer is right, those lamps seem to be an instances - once you separate one, all the others "disappear". What can you try to eliminate the instances, is to select all the lampshades and Edit>Duplicate, then delete the former ones. Also, use Edit>DeleteByType>History time after time on all the objects, as you don't want complex node network in your scene at this stage.

[mihirsbcc · Accepted solution]

Convert instances to geometry tool may work

[umut_uzunoglu]

Thank you all for your generous replies, I solved the problem by selecting all connected instances then Mesh>Combine after that Edit>Delete by type>History and then Mesh>Seperate fixed my issue. I don't know this is the best way to solve but it worked for me.