Quote - Sounds like that was meant to weld the verts that were split to keep the edges hard.  Was a P4 thing.  I don't think P6 cares about that.

unfortunately it is still an issue in both P5 and P6. i can usually get by with gratuitous use of the bevel/chamfer tool and get a halfway decent shape which doesnt require me to split vertices, but heaven forbid someone turn on 'smooth polygons' in the render settings window -- everything ends up looking like a stay puft marshmallow :(