Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters

Fill and Grid Fill

With the Fill and Grid Fill tools, you can select a part of the mesh where you have a hole and it will be filled. Generally, Grid Fill gives better results and cleaner geometry (see Chapter 7 for more information about clean geometry and topology) than Fill (see Figure 6.12).

Figure 6.12 Mesh selection (left), Fill (middle), and Grid Fill (right)

To use the Fill tool:

1. Select the borders of the hole (sometimes you can select them as a loop with Alt and right clicking).

2. Press Alt + F to fill the hole with new geometry.

There are a few options with the Fill tool, such as the Beauty option, which will try to give you a ...