Illustrator 2023 Expand Not Working

[Matthew28519561fhah]

I'm trying to expand the selected shope. It's a L shape that I extruded.
When I Expand Appearance it makes it into a picture instead of giving me a group of objects to select each of its sides.
Any ideas?
t.i.a.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

In the Raytracing settings, check Render as Vector and then click on Render. After that expand appearance. There will still be raster images, but there will also be paths.

[Matthew28519561fhah]

Ok, that worked. Thank you.
It's more work to separate out the objects faces to be able to select them. But I will be able to explain it to my students. (Hopefully.)  ^__^

[Monika Gause]

You could try the classic 3D effects and set the Shading to None which will then create only few objects.