[funBoy]

Hello everyone! I am new to this site as well as to LW. I took a class on LW in college but was very dissapionted when I found out that the teacher had no idea what the program was until the first day of class. needless to say that I learned very little in the 4 months that I took the class. I have my first of many stupid questions to ask here. When I lathe something say a pawn chess peice for example, I activate subpatches and smooth it out real nice. When I do so my original polygon is left the same as it was when created. It is usually sticking out of the side of my model at this point looking real crappy and generally making me angry. I just delete it but Ive found that in some cases this causes me problems later on. How do I avoid this???