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title: "Extrude"
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description: "This page covers the Extrude tool in Cinema 4D, one of the fundamental polygon-modeling operations. It pushes selected points, edges or polygons outward …"
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# Extrude

> **Note:** **What is it about?**
>
> This page covers the **Extrude tool** in **Cinema 4D**, one of the fundamental polygon-modeling operations. It pushes selected points, edges or polygons outward along their normals — with caps, edge angle control and interactive dragging in the viewport.

This tool extrudes selected points, edges or polygons. If no elements are selected, all of the object's elements will be extruded.

To extrude interactively in the Viewport, drag left or right within the Viewport. The extrusion takes place along the Normals of the selected surfaces; the average value is evaluated from all the Normals to be extruded.

![Image: 003665.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/003665.jpg)\
Before and after extrusion