m4dcow, I get a syntax error at cmds.select(cl=True) thanks for the info about the double clicking on the faces to select everything, thought Trios just ment double clicking the object :) and the merge on the entire object worked like a charm to merge the all the verts with the set threshold, thanks a ton :)
@m4dcow: you should be able to use [*] to select all of a certain component rather than explicitly listing the indices. the unfortunate thing is that maya doesn't have component 'modes', just masks. So there's no entirely dependable way that I know of to check what components are selectable. But I use this: {string…