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You're confusing some core 3DS concepts here, Kim. My first recommendation is that you go through the tutorials. Beyond that, notice that you mention Surface/mapping/apply obj. and compare it to Surface/material/assign face. In the one case, you're referring to _mapping_, which establishes mapping coordinates on an object for mapped materials, while the second command has to do with assigning _materials_ to an object at the face level. The Face Map button in the Materials Editor, on the other hand (or on the third hand) is a special function that's carried with a material and affects the way it's mapped to any object. On the _fourth_ hand, Create/face/detach is a modeling function that alters the structure of an object and has nothing to do with materials or mapping. Again, I highly recommend you spend time with the tutorials. There's a lot of stuff in 3DS, and we tried to organize the tutorials so the various concepts and functions are introduced in a logical order. – Jack