Hello, and a good morning to all.

Building a new Poser figure is probably the hardest thing one can do, and I have the highest respect for everybody walking this road to create his/her new figure and to share it with the Poser community.

That being said, we live in 2016, and we have to look forward.

There are some old discussions like "Where to put the obj file?" In the Geometries folder or next to the cr2?

Well, Smith Micro stopped the use of the Geometries folder for figures around 8 years ago.

The same goes for the object files.

Some 20 years ago, it was all loose groups and Poser used its internal rewelding system to get the groups to form a figure. => That was 20 years ago.

Then come the upgrades and evolutions, and the newer features like conforming clothing, morphs and morph transfer, the fitting room and so on all work (or break depending on the initial quality of the obj file) .

Poser did not help either. The OP is correct that Poser "breaks" an object file at obj file export, or the very moment you touch the setup- or the fitting room with it.

As of today, september 2016, Poser is still unable to save a properly grouped and welded object file. => The only thing one can do with Poser saved object files is to DELETE them, and replace them with a good one.

During all these years of weld cracks, groups being welded and unwelded, some clever guys and gals came with scripts to make life better. => PML was one of them.

Those scripts are all ways "hacks" to be able to work with "broken" object files, but it is 10 year old technology.

Again, I agree with the OP that it all works in Poser. And that's because Poser maintained compatibility with this "old and obsolete tech" of welding, unwelding and rewelding.

Looking at the future. => We all hope that somewhere in the future Poser will stop breaking object files and we can continue working with properly grouped AND welded object files.

SM knows this issue all too well and let us hope that one of the next Poser versions will find a "cure" for this problem.

Best regards, Tony