Maya Soften Edge problem

Senergy

I got a model from a client that has quite hard edges but the final output is supposed to be very smooth and soft. Although, when I try to use Soften Edge, nothing happens. I already tried Set to Face, Lock to Normals, Clean Up, Unlock and Conform before Soften Edge but still, nothing happens.

The file is an STL and Maya wasn’t able to import it (even I used the STL plugin). So I had to convert it in Blender and export in FBX.

Any heads up?

janoshx

if first unlock normals and then smooth edges does not help try to select all vertices and weld with some proper value depending what kind of scale this model is?