Extruding with disc

[Brian Jones]

you need to select the polys in the centre and use the Extrude tool not the Move tool with the edges. The move tool doesn’t make any new geometry so all you will be doing with it is moving that circle of edges and the polys connected to those edges will move with them.

[Jason Brown]

Thanks for the reply. I did what you said however when I extrude downwards it was leaving a cap the on the extrude segments so the the extrude isn’t visible from the top.

See from this pic

I’m no longer going to extrude the model though as it’s so minimal on a vinyl I doubt it would be visible, although I’d be curious as to the reason for this issue for future reference.

I do have another problem… I’m trying to select this inner circle to delete out, as you can see I’ve created the extrude but when I go to select it (with loop selection and the selection tool radius down to 1) it bypasses the geometry line and selects more polygons than I want, how do I fix this?

Thanks

[Brian Jones]

[Jason Brown] “although I’d be curious as to the reason for this issue for future reference.”

the Extrude tool will only add caps if ‘Create Caps’ is checked and your screen grab shows that it is not checked so the only thing I can think of is that you have duplicate geometry occupying the same physical space (which is possible to accidentally create particularly for a beginner). Try the tool on a new object just to test (disk, sphere etc make it editable select a few polygons and extrude). It should work easily so something odd like duplicate geometry must be going on with your record.

[Jason Brown] “it bypasses the geometry line and selects more polygons than I want, how do I fix this?”

further suspicion that you have duplicate geometry, it should not do that with the tool settings you have in the image.