# Faces remain after extruding - no way to delete them?

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/faces-remain-after-extruding-no-way-to-delete-them/22559>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [November 20, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/faces-remain-after-extruding-no-way-to-delete-them/22559 "2022-11-20T00:07:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Iliketrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@Iliketrains](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Iliketrains)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/faces-remain-after-extruding-no-way-to-delete-them/22559/1 "2022-11-20T00:07:48Z")

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Hi,

Two related issues -

1. when I use extrude sometimes I am left with a face I don’t want. See the attached screenshot. This happens every time when in sketch mode I ensure the line I am drawing is right on the edge of the shape I am extruding through and in the attached screenshot it happened when I made the 2d shape much bigger

2. I cannot find any way to delete or remove the leftover 2d plane without removing the entire shape.

I’m sure the answer is absurdly simple but I am not finding it after a lot of googling and trial and error.

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**Author:** ![Iliketrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@Iliketrains](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Iliketrains)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/faces-remain-after-extruding-no-way-to-delete-them/22559/2 "2022-11-20T00:08:42Z")

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![PXL_20221120_000220192](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/8/e/8eb72b5c543dc10a35597ebbed01e09c4ab08018.jpeg)  
Image from above post. Apologies for the low quality

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**Author:** ![Matt\_the-Rathje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Matt\_the-Rathje](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Matt_the-Rathje)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 12:23am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/faces-remain-after-extruding-no-way-to-delete-them/22559/3 "2022-11-20T00:23:59Z")

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that seems to be the inital sketch.  
Open the Item-Explorer and try to hide it by c

 ![2022-11-20 01_21_51-Shapr3D](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/4/a/4af66f0885997f58f3b17622e78baad331848b96.png)  
licking on the eye!  
HTH  
Cheers Matt

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**Author:** ![Iliketrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@Iliketrains](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Iliketrains)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/faces-remain-after-extruding-no-way-to-delete-them/22559/4 "2022-11-20T01:00:48Z")

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Thanks for responding Matt -

it’s a very very thin slice not the original shape (talking about the vertical grey face not the blue horizontal one)

I’m having a consistent struggle with getting results like that when I think I have drawn a shape in sketch mode that abuts the edge of the thing I want to extrude through, then I extrude and find I am off by a microscopic fraction and have to go clean up.

I’m playing with the snap settings right now to try and avoid this, after messing around all morning I just realised that moving or copy pasting objects in sketch mode does not snap them to the grid or other shapes so I’m looking for a way around that.