# Fast way to select many faces?

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/fast-way-to-select-many-faces/27799>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [September 8, 2023, 4:40am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/fast-way-to-select-many-faces/27799 "2023-09-08T04:40:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![kwando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@kwando](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/kwando)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 4:40am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/fast-way-to-select-many-faces/27799/1 "2023-09-08T04:40:31Z")

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Is there a smarter way to select many faces on a sketch? In the below sketch I want to select all faces so I can extrude them and it is kinda tedious to click every face manually 🙂

 ![IMG_0512](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/d/3/d3e7e8c60885c6e1a0ded3a03349e17edca49f3f.png)

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Gy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/peter_gy/32/9251_2.png) [@Peter\_Gy](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Peter_Gy)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 6:27am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/fast-way-to-select-many-faces/27799/2 "2023-09-08T06:27:39Z")

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Have you tried [area selection](https://support.shapr3d.com/hc/en-us/articles/7770768736924-Selecting-geometry#win-tab)? You can filter the selection to faces only. It does not help if they can’t be covered by simple rectangle, but in your case it looks from this screenshot that you can.

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**Author:** ![kwando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@kwando](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/kwando)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/fast-way-to-select-many-faces/27799/3 "2023-09-29T18:12:25Z")

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I just discovered that I can filter the box select on the left in the screen, I knew it!

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**Author:** ![Oregonerd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/oregonerd/32/8012_2.png) [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2023, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/fast-way-to-select-many-faces/27799/4 "2023-09-30T03:45:30Z")

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A magic wand type of selection would be handy. The area selection doesn’t always work well.