Hi Burr, well the other difficulty is that some particular file formats do not permit all the meshing options.

For example if you export to STL or 3DS formats, those only support Triangle polygons and not quads or n-gons. So certain controls on the dialog can be hidden when it is being used for a particular file format.

So it's easier for the format to be picked when you are at the file dialog stage rather than in the meshing options.

That's just the most normal way to determine the file format also (in the file Save dialog I mean). I think that would be pretty strange to only have a "Polys" option in the save dialog and then have the specific poly format come up after that, just way too different than how most software works for saving I think.

It just seems to make the most sense to have the "Meshing options" dialog actually do what it says and focus just on meshing options and not on file format choices...

- Michael