Ah, yes, the original blDavid.obj. That of course is welded.

But as I said, if I use that in Wings, it's split into a gazillion groups.

So, my "work-object" is always a geometry file I export from a fully zeroed figure out of Poser. Which Poser splits during the export.

(I shouldn't have said "default David geometry" as that suggests I was using the original blDavid.obj)

(Except for the PML files, which are exported welded without grouping)

Also, a lot of my figures are custom made hybrids, so there is no original pre-welded DAZ object file to start with.