FILLING HOLES in Meshes with Grid Fill in Blender!
In this video, learn how to use Grid Fill in Blender to quickly fill or patch holes in your meshes! This is an excellent way to add quad geometry into gaps in your models!
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0:00 - Introduction
0:11 - The Blender Secrets book
0:40 - How to use grid fill to fill in a hole in a mesh
1:22 - Grid fill on more complex shapes
2:06 - Using grid fill for quad geometry on complex shapes
3:07 - Simplified blending
4:13 - How adding topology can create better geometry with grid fill
5:30 - The Blender Secrets book
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Hi everyone! Let me know if you're using the grid fill tool in the comments below! :)
@TheTubejunky
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I will be now! This will help with tubing/pipes I hope.
I just discovered the Grid Fill the other day, it saved me a lot of work where I was getting some unexplained, unexpected gaps in my model. As mentioned here, it doesn't always seem to work perfectly, but with some tinkering, the result is better than what I had before. I wasn't sure what the settings were meant to do, so thanks for explaining them!
I was modelling an R2-D2 model for the last 2 days. If I knew this grid fill it would have took me 1 day to finish the model. This is insanely a life and time saver :) Thank you!
I was literally working on something that I need this tool for now. Awesome stuff you explain things faster and easier than any other channel.
This one is absolutely amazing. Thanks for posting a video on it!
I started at zero and after watching a few of these videos I am already able to do so many things. I've got that older "this is a pain in the ass" brain about computer stuff, but so far, I am not frustrated following these videos. It's much appreciated as I can't afford a class.
Thanks! I finally got it to work for me using offset to get different variations of how the edges lay. It has seldom ever been helpful til now.
Thank you TheCGEssentials for always having cool, random, blender secrets🤩
good coverage of this tool Justin. Keep up the great work bro
This is something I did not know I needed until I needed it. Just found your channel!
Great clear video (as always) of a super useful tool. This tool will find use for many applications, particularly tidying up 3D scanned/photogrammetry recreated geometry among other uses. Leads to easier 3D printing or 3D "real physics" simulation
This guy is life changer , thanks a lot mate solved issue just because of you !
i love his work, i have the book and it's brilliant resource. congrats!
I wish I would've known about this a couple months ago. I've been doing the cuts all by hand. Thank you, sir.
Another great video, keep them coming.
Nice, was looking for something like this yesterday
Great tip. Will definitely try this
Literally found this exactly after needing it for a project😂😭. Still, this is going to save me soo much time in the future, so a big thank you!
That's a great tip. Modo has a feature like that I've used a bunch but didn't realize Blender did also.
Great tip. Thank you!
Thank you so much! This was very helpful!
well explained, guru
thank you, this method saved me time 😊
Seen them on reddit. Great tricks!
Thanks!
Very good
Thanks mate, kkep the good woork!
nice!
Awesome tnx
Thank god this video exists, cause there's no way me, as a rookie, would've figured this out
just a tip if some people want the bottom to be filled, u can select the edge loop again, press ctrl + F and then click the grid fill optoin
it looks like span is basically telling blender when it makes a grid, is how many points are in X vs. how many points are on Y. (remaining points go to Y). Try it, see for yourself. When Span correctly matches the actual points that are on X, you get a rectangular-looking grid
how do you do it manually? Just draw a triangle to fill in a missing one.
0:35 It is 1,800 some pages and I haven't made it all the way thru, YET! Funniest thing I have heard all day.
hi none of that worked. I have 3 cutouts I am trying to remove and it wont select edges or loops.
Alt key doesn't work as intended for me...help
man every tutorial i se on this i dont get it i cant select 2 part at a time for some reason :(
Wow.....
How is it that I use fill so much, but don't try grid fill. I feel so dumb. Would of saved me so much time and made things I had worked on previously so much better than trying to have it match the flow manually for the topology. Ooof.
fuck yeah man this help a lot
@TheCGEssentials
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Awesome!
i can't get it to work :D
It does not work
Same sphere. No changes to default sphere . And massive shading and distortion issues after grid fill . In my opinion grid fill is in the most cases useless
I can only imagine the math required to do that lol
OMG useless
why do you talk so strange?