# Selecting all faces in a shape to make a group

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selecting-all-faces-in-a-shape-to-make-a-group/1933>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [December 30, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selecting-all-faces-in-a-shape-to-make-a-group/1933 "2017-12-30T21:04:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Scribb1er](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scribb1er](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Scribb1er)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selecting-all-faces-in-a-shape-to-make-a-group/1933/1 "2017-12-30T21:04:34Z")

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Hi

I made an empty lidless box like this:

- create a face by joining 4 lines in to a square
- selecting face
- extruding upward to make a cube
- select top face
- offset to a 2nd face
- push that through almost to other side
- now I’ve got a 5 sided empty box

Now I can find no way to select all the parts and manipulate them as a unit. They always leave some bits behind. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selecting-all-faces-in-a-shape-to-make-a-group/1933/2 "2017-12-30T21:08:13Z")

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Just double tap with the Pencil on the body.

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**Author:** ![Scribb1er](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scribb1er](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Scribb1er)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selecting-all-faces-in-a-shape-to-make-a-group/1933/3 "2017-12-30T21:39:24Z")

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Hi istvan. Thanks, that’s what I’m doing though, but if I transform and move, I get faces left behind.

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selecting-all-faces-in-a-shape-to-make-a-group/1933/4 "2017-12-30T21:43:15Z")

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Can you post a video?

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**Author:** ![Scribb1er](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scribb1er](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Scribb1er)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selecting-all-faces-in-a-shape-to-make-a-group/1933/5 "2017-12-30T23:17:36Z")

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Great idea, am a few hours away though, but will do so. Thanks

- Glenn Davy

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**Author:** ![Scribb1er](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scribb1er](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Scribb1er)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 7:46am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selecting-all-faces-in-a-shape-to-make-a-group/1933/6 "2017-12-31T07:46:09Z")

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Hi istvan, you’ll see the two faces left behind at end of movie:

[https://www.dropbox.com/s/hyh840oxp8mlm68/shapr-screen-capture.mp4?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/hyh840oxp8mlm68/shapr-screen-capture.mp4?dl=0)

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selecting-all-faces-in-a-shape-to-make-a-group/1933/7 "2017-12-31T09:36:08Z")

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Those are the sketches you created before. Closed sketches filled automatically. You can delete them by selecting the filling or the sketches, or from the groups menu.

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**Author:** ![Scribb1er](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scribb1er](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Scribb1er)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/selecting-all-faces-in-a-shape-to-make-a-group/1933/8 "2017-12-31T16:11:23Z")

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I didn’t create any sketches before? Or are they the faces I extruded from, but theyr’e not included in the final solid shape? So, if that’s the case, they’d never have become apparent if I hadn’t have done the move transform. Do people typically just leave them there in place? Or move the shape, delete them then move back the shape as a matter of routine?