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Old 27th March 2005, 04:46 PM   #1
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Default Problem Extruding

When trying to extrude a polygon like the one in the car tutorial, I get the error message:

Extrude failed: There are no external surface edges.


What am I doing wrong?


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Old 28th March 2005, 02:35 AM   #2
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Perhaps you're in not in surface mode. Or, you have an open edge along the extrude line, when it should be a closed one. Example: if you make a cylinder with an open outer edge, you won't be able to extract it further to make more segments. but if it's capped, you can. That's because you CAN extrude a surface, but you cannot extrude an edge.
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Old 28th March 2005, 09:55 AM   #3
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Thanks for your help, but I clicked on menu-vertex-extrude edges, and it went fine.


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Great! Ya learn something new every day!!

I suppose my advice only applies to the "Extrude" button, which I believe only works on surfaces.
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