Saving out my chair as a figure with his parts as bones as one. How to do this?

PW Productions

Hey i have heard that a model with several parts in it , is beter to have saved out as a figure. i have made a chair and i wanted to try this out but when i save the geometry as figure i can do only one at the time and when i do that with each part of my model i have all separated figures with one bone in it . 
I have parented these with each other , but i want to have them all as one figure with the bones (parts) connected .  Can you Help me how i can accomplish this? 
Thanks Perry walinga 

Richard Haseltine

The ideal way would be to have the item a single mesh tos tart with, the parts represented by groups that will become bones in the Figure Setup pane. I'm not aware of a way to turn a hierarchy of parented props into a figure.

PW Productions

ok thanks ,