The Separate Object Per Material tool allows to separate object and extract faces based on their assigned materials. It can separate mutiple objects simultaneously. The tool also comes with a function to fix objects with multiple materials, for example, an object that turns green when duplicated.
Material-based extraction
The Separate Object Per Material can extract all the faces shared by the same material for all of your assigned materials on an object.
You can assign a hotkey to the Separate Object Per Material tool inside the Maya hotkey editor.
The hotkey entry can be found in the Custom Scripts tab under GENtools → Mesh → Separate Object Per Material.
This function can be used to fix objects with broken material sets. It’s something that can generally occurs on object with which you manually assigned different materials on the object faces.
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