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I have an issue regarding the extrude operation.

If you avec a plane split in 4 face and you want to extrude each one of them in separate manner, blender will create 2 faces at the border each time. See shape 1 and 2.

I'm looking to get from shape 1 to 3

Meanwhile I'm looking to get something similar to shape 3 where the topology is cleaner (now double face and less edges ).

Is there anyway to get this result in blender ?

Any help is welcome.

Here is the figure with face orientation in cas the other one isn't clear enough : With face orientation

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    $\begingroup$ Yes you can accomplish that by selecting edges. $\endgroup$ – Robert Gützkow Aug 1 '19 at 12:46
  • $\begingroup$ Yes that what I did to get shape 3, deleted the edges and added the missing faces, but I want to do that to an extended scale where manual work is not an option. I was wondering if there is a similar operator or maybe a way to script that. $\endgroup$ – Edmond Boulet-Gilly Aug 1 '19 at 12:48
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    $\begingroup$ Automating will be more difficult. Pretty much anything is possible via add-ons though, if you're willing to go down that road. $\endgroup$ – Robert Gützkow Aug 1 '19 at 13:01
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You can perform the following steps to get a clean topology with the same shape.

Select the first face and extrude downwards. enter image description here

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Now switch to edge select and select the other faces and the outer perimeter. enter image description here

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Repeat the same technique shown in the last two steps. enter image description here

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks, the topology will be clean but you added way more vertices, edges and faces than necessary. I'm looking for something that would give efficient result in topology and poly count. $\endgroup$ – Edmond Boulet-Gilly Aug 1 '19 at 12:59
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    $\begingroup$ What polygons do you think are unnecessary? If you want to keep it all quads you can't really remove anything. $\endgroup$ – Robert Gützkow Aug 1 '19 at 13:02
  • $\begingroup$ Al thought adding a decimate modifier with the planar option will delete them, but the modifier can be at bit slow when the shape is too complex... $\endgroup$ – Edmond Boulet-Gilly Aug 1 '19 at 13:03
  • $\begingroup$ I was willing to go full n-gons to be honest. $\endgroup$ – Edmond Boulet-Gilly Aug 1 '19 at 13:04
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    $\begingroup$ @EdmondBoulet-Gilly that isn't really considered good/clean topology. Not sure why you'd want that, but you could manually make them n-gons, I suppose. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ $\endgroup$ – Robert Gützkow Aug 1 '19 at 13:08

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