How to create part of an object a separate object on Blender?

Question

I am creating a figure on Blender and I do not know how to take a part of the object and turn it into a separate object. Below is a picture- the area in orange is what I want to create as a separate object from the rest of the object.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

Answer 1

While in edit mode press P and choose Selection. This is also available in the Mesh menu under Vertices->Separate.

You may also want to use CtrlD to duplicate the selection before separating if you don't want to remove the part from the current mesh.

Also Blender has it's own site at blender.stackexchange.com for blender specific help.