Maya 2011 OBJ importer problems

[MikeF]

So i've been doing quite a bit of importing the last few days to fix models, but everything is coming in broken up in pieces with no smoothing information, everything is a hard edge.

Never had this problem before, would really appreciate it if anyone had any ideas

[haiddasalami]

Yup. I had this with the Lee Perry head model. Ended up opening in max, exporting as fbx and importing back in.

[Hayden Zammit]

Did you delete the history before exporting the original mesh?

[MikeF]

hmmm, i'l have to check with the person who exported.
i was getting it across the board with a lot of different models from different sources so i figured it was a obj importer issue

thanks for the help