# Separating objects or maintaining part anonymity

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/separating-objects-or-maintaining-part-anonymity/348>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [August 12, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/separating-objects-or-maintaining-part-anonymity/348 "2016-08-12T18:07:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![OCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19b73/32.png) [@OCD](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/OCD)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/separating-objects-or-maintaining-part-anonymity/348/1 "2016-08-12T18:07:36Z")

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Hello, I have not played with Shapr3D in a while but I am on a road trip and have some free time. This could be a dumb question and I may have just forgot the answer. I want to know if after drawing a sketch on another surface and then extruding it; Is their any easy or at least effective way of separating the new extrusion from the parent object? Or is their a way to draw on a surface and extrude it without it ever being a part of the first object? I know this was not available in the past but I don’t know if there has been a change or any good work arounds? BTW I did try to draw in a separate layer and thought that was supposed to change things but they are still stuck together.

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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:** [August 13, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/separating-objects-or-maintaining-part-anonymity/348/2 "2016-08-13T09:46:22Z")

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Currently there isn’t, but very soon the whole sketching concept will change a lot, and then you will be able to do that.