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It is correct. As he later explained, the whole purpose of this thread was to find out how to do this in Poser, and this intention was perfectly clear to me from the outset. Let's try to keep this on track instead of splitting hairs about how the question was phrased.

no, he didn't.  i just looked over the posts, and nowhere did he say, "how do i do this only using Poser," to any response.  and it's not splitting hairs.  he makes props in Blender.  he wants the variable smoothing to work in Poser.  but if someone can suggest something that works in creation, and then works on import into Poser, that fits the bill.

i just tried using "Set Smooth" in Blender on parts of an object and importing it.  it seems to have worked so far, but i need to try a trickier test.