bumping this. While I have no problems with smoothing vertex normals my colleagues might like to have smoothing groups to work with in Max. Is there any way to export them? I use SP5 and tried to use both Export as standard dialogue and export as a layer script with smoothing groups turned on. But no luck yet.
Felix: Are you using the right click menu for Export Selected? That has a smoothing bug, due to the fact that the smoothing isn't calculated until the mesh is drawn in the viewport (and as that's an entirely scripted operation - it copies the selected meshes to a new scene then saves the new scene - it's never rendered in…