Hi all, I just downloaded anim8or yesterday and have been getting familiar with it today as I have the day off. I like what I'm seeing so far. I do have a question or two.

Specifically, I'm doing the Gingerbread Man tute from the anim8or site. It's very easy to follow but when I aproach the steps in the 20s - is anyone familiar with this tute? - and after building and mirroring then joining the solids of the two disparate halves, one returns to point edit and drags selects some points, setting the maximum merge distance, after which you select the previously selected points and edit/cut, removing faces along the Y-axis.

Here's where I get hung up: Using Edge Selection and Drag Select one should select certain points, drag and Edit/Cut to remove interior edges. This is easy enough, in fact all of it is.

But when I subdivide, the end result is not what I want to get. I get the gingerbread man otherwise well formed except where I have selected the points using edge selection and then cut, THERE ARE WHOLES WHERE THE FACES should be. In fact, I can see the faces are gone.

The otherwise well written tute says if one encounters this one should undo and go back to repeat the steps and then try subdividing again. I keep getting the same result. After six complete walkthroughs of the tute, minutely detailed, I keep getting the same result, which means I must be misreading something somewhere, not unusual in that I proofread for a living - not as easy as one might think, I assure you.

Here is a pic of what I'm getting. All where "he" has no body is the result I do not want. Hope one of the anim8or users here - are there some? - can correct my obvious error. Thanks.

Larry F