Exporting combined object from UV Texture Editor tia sal2

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Exporting combined object from UV Texture Editor tia sal2

Greetings

I have 100-200 diamond/hex shape objects that I would like to merge into
one complete object
in maya 8.5. I try and group them all together and delete history but
Maya still sees
them as multiple objects when I select them and go to the UV editor.

What I'm trying to do is export the final merged object UVsnapshot /
create a PSD network from the
UV texture editor so I can add the color to the texture in Photoshop. IS
this possible?
Does digital Tutors have tutorial for this?

http://www.digitaltutors.com/chit_chat/showthread.php?t=8015