Feedback Ability to not import a model from an .fbx

Of the four sub-tabs on an .fbx file's Inspector tab, I can turn off the importing of materials, animation, or a rig. Why not the model, too? I have a bunch of .fbx files that come with a model and I'm not interested in them, only the animation.

 

If you're just interested in the animation file (and your rigs are all compatible), you can select just the animation in the project view, hit Ctrl+D to duplicate just the .anim file, and delete the .fbx.

I'd imagine (and this is just my assumption) that the reason you can't deselect the mesh itself is a file format compatibility issue. Unity supports a wide variety of model file formats (.fbx, .obj, .blend etc) which then get serialized as Unity's internal mesh class. Some of those formats (e.g. .obj) don't support animation, so I'd imagine that allowing users to not import the mesh would break a lot of functionality in Unity's serialization process, or require a big reworking of how models are imported.