Is it possible to use notepad to swap items in models

I've been reading a lot of Tutorials on Swaping Geosets of models, like giving a peasant a sword are a peon hero glow, and it looks like most of this can be done from just note pad. So i'm just asking if I'm right or not or do you still need a Modeling program like 3DS Max to edit something I'm not catching?

To clarify i'm just talking about swapping pieces of models back and forth not creating new models.

Sincerely,

Strom Stonebeard

well, to get the part you want seperated (as in, you want a sword, but not the rest of the geoset like hair or w/e) you do need 3ds to delete the rest. ofcourse, it is possible to do it 100% in notepad. I know alfred seperates in in notepad (but that'll take hours more)

Wordpad works better as it lags less than Notepad

Lag?! o_O

You really need a visual program to position the objects in place, and to extract them from models. It can be done in notepad, but that would be like watching a film using braille.

Yeah lag. Notepad can't handle very large text files so well.

I have no troubles with it. I never had any "lag".

You must have Wordpad Professional 2004.

Even with 3 gig of RAM, my Notepad lags. Use Wordpad.

Lol 3 Gig RAM. Its for nothing.

There is NO WAY Notepad cannot lag with larger MDL files you must be using something other than Notepad.

Nope, simple notepad.

try opening a 1mb mdl file in notepad; always lagged for me

same here, Demon hunter is a good example.

I opened Arthas.mdl (931 kb) and well umm no lag...

convert Demon hunter or Illidan and open it in notepad and tell me THAT doesn't lag, if it doesn't I'd say you aint using Notepad.