# Multi-Select Faces

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/multi-select-faces/32221>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [May 30, 2024, 11:05am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/multi-select-faces/32221 "2024-05-30T11:05:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Lester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lester](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Lester)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 11:05am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/multi-select-faces/32221/1 "2024-05-30T11:05:17Z")

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I am working from my iPad. I have 100 Hexagons that I want to extrude onto a flat body that is 10mm thick. Essentially, I need 100 Hexagonal holes in the 10mm flat body.

The 100 hexagons are 30mm above the flat body and I need to select the bottom face of the hexagons to extrude and create the holes needed in the flat body.

Is there a may to mass-select the bottom face of the 100 hexagons at once, then perform the extrusion?

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**Author:** ![Bob3DPO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Bob3DPO](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Bob3DPO)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/multi-select-faces/32221/2 "2024-05-30T13:43:50Z")

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Use **Area Selection**.

  

Does this help?

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**Author:** ![Lester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lester](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Lester)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/multi-select-faces/32221/3 "2024-05-30T14:00:01Z")

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This is exactly what I was trying to do, but I discovered 2 problems.

1. You have to be sure that you are dragging your selection window across all of your bodies…you can’t select half of a body because it attempts to select the sides as a face. Must be a bug of sorts.

2. I was using the number “100” as a representation…I actually have 4000 of these, and when I attempt to do the Extrusion action…iPad crashes.

Thank you so much for the illustrations…very helpful.

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**Author:** ![jcclow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/jcclow/32/23888_2.png) [@jcclow](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/jcclow)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/multi-select-faces/32221/4 "2024-05-30T15:50:18Z")

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If you select from right to left, it will select everything it touches. See the Shapr3D manual [here](https://support.shapr3d.com/hc/en-us/articles/7770768736924-Selecting-geometry#selection-box-direction).