Hi Laurie, Thank you for your quick reply.. I hope that i am over complicating the situation here, but all i really need it to select all the world x facing faces of a poly object, front and back faces. I am creating over 500 polygon houses and need to uv project all the walls, this is very time consuming to manually select all the x faces and project, invert my selection and project on the z. I have been looking for days for a simple solution.. Could you maybe help with a simpler solution. I have a generic poly cube names pCube1. Here is where i am: //Select all the faces of an object select -r pCube1.f["*"]; //now get the number of faces in the selection $faceList = `filterExpand -sm 34`; //check that i have all the faces print $faceList; print ("Num of faces is: " + size($faceList) + "\n"); //Now get the per face normal direction of the selection polyInfo -faceNormals; I am a little stuck here, I need to convert the "polyInfo -faceNormals" into a usable variable array. I found this but not sure how it works or how to use it: proc vector translatePolyInfoNormal( string $pin ) { vector $normal; float $x; float $y; float $z; string $tokens[]; int $numTokens = `tokenize $pin " " $tokens`; // Make sure we're looking at polyInfo data: if ( ( $numTokens > 3 ) && ( $tokens[0] == "FACE_NORMAL" ) ) { // Maya performs data-type conversion here. $x = ($tokens[$numTokens-3]); $y = ($tokens[$numTokens-2]); $z = ($tokens[$numTokens-1]); $normal = << $x, $y, $z >>; // Normalize it. $normal = `unit $normal`; } // Return it. return $normal; print $normal; } My thinking in words is as follows: Select the object, put the selected face numbers into an array, query the face normal vector direction and store them in an array. do a for loop using the face number size as the amount of loops to check if the x value of the face normal vector direction is within certain paramaters, if so then select that face. do the loop untill all the desired faces are selected. I know it seems simple, but I really am battling with it. Thank you for your time