# Difficulty adding to group

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/difficulty-adding-to-group/3888>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [January 25, 2019, 6:57am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/difficulty-adding-to-group/3888 "2019-01-25T06:57:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Mpro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mpro](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Mpro)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 6:57am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/difficulty-adding-to-group/3888/1 "2019-01-25T06:57:51Z")

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Hello  
I’m having difficult add a newly raised object to its own group (object was raise from existing surface/object after drawing sketch on that object) . As you can see in the screenshot below, I can select the individual box if I’m changing the color but if I want to add it to its own group (or even transport it) the lasso automatically selects the object beneath it too.

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I also tried to add a plane with 0" offset but same exact thing happened. Please help me.

![fullsizeoutput_357c](https://cdck-file-uploads-us1.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/c/c64cbfea7d693ddf7866d692634762cfa8941e1d.jpeg) ![fullsizeoutput_357e](https://cdck-file-uploads-us1.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/a/a177a4596b876e02e73a321f57cbbb8284e41248.jpeg)  
thanks!

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**Author:** ![DanielR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/danielr/32/582_2.png) [@DanielR](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/DanielR)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/difficulty-adding-to-group/3888/2 "2019-01-25T11:43:40Z")

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Hi -

can you please send the workspace? Also, in the first pic did you select the faces one-by-one or the body with a double-tap.

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**Author:** ![Mpro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mpro](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Mpro)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/difficulty-adding-to-group/3888/3 "2019-01-25T11:50:41Z")

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in the first pic, I used two single taps; if I double tap, then it will select the cube along with the base. the second pic was a single tap in the Add to Group selection.

Can you elaborate please on sending the workspace?

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**Author:** ![DanielR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/danielr/32/582_2.png) [@DanielR](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/DanielR)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/difficulty-adding-to-group/3888/4 "2019-01-25T12:10:07Z")

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Single tap selects face, double tap selects body. I assume the body -as it was extruded was set to an automatic Union.

If you recreate the extrusion, you will see a small badge next to your dimensions - tap on it, and select New body function. This will give you two separate bodies.  
 ![IMB_D5Atxg](https://cdck-file-uploads-us1.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/d/d6d45ad23f9e1e6034170006b0e785b011d92cfc.gif)

Best regards

Daniel

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**Author:** ![Mpro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mpro](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Mpro)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/difficulty-adding-to-group/3888/5 "2019-01-25T12:23:36Z")

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aaah… AWESOME!!!

this would work but out of curiosity, is there a way to change an existing , previously made extrusion to “new body” ?

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**Author:** ![DanielR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/danielr/32/582_2.png) [@DanielR](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/DanielR)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/difficulty-adding-to-group/3888/6 "2019-01-25T14:07:45Z")

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You can, but requires creating a copy, and subtracting one part from the original, and the other from the copy,