Micheal,

I figured out what I was doing wrong. When I was selecting the "face" of the extruded piece, I think I was clicking on the whole piece and deleting it, which left me with the big hole and not the extruded face I wanted. I realized if I click on it, then click on it again, it selects just that face, then only deletes that top piece and gives me the effect I'm after.

Chalk it up to still learning the software I guess?

I have some more playing around to do to really get comfortable with this aspect of the process.

Thanks again for the help, it really is invaluable as without it I'd spend hours of frustration trying to figure out what I'm doing!

Hi Ryan,

> I realized if I click on it, then click on it again, it selects
> just that face, then only deletes that top piece and gives
> me the effect I'm after.

Yeah it will take a little bit to get comfortable selecting sub objects on the second click like that.

You also can select edges for some kinds of operations in the same way, by a second click after the near an edge after the "whole object" has been selected by the first click.

But it does sound like you are figuring things out and making some rapid progress!

It gets easier as you spend more time on it.

- Michael