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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  • @TheCGEssentials
    @TheCGEssentials Жыл бұрын

    Hi everyone! Let me know if you're using the grid fill tool in the comments below! :)

  • @TheTubejunky

    @TheTubejunky

    Жыл бұрын

    I will be now! This will help with tubing/pipes I hope.

  • @rodjohnson2632
    @rodjohnson2632 Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @the_maali
    @the_maali Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @kyledally8410
    @kyledally8410 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @tornadre
    @tornadre Жыл бұрын

    This one is absolutely amazing. Thanks for posting a video on it!

  • @laynepaige5397
    @laynepaige53979 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @RC-Heli835
    @RC-Heli8352 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @ronanrhoda1985
    @ronanrhoda19858 ай бұрын

    Thank you TheCGEssentials for always having cool, random, blender secrets🤩

  • @a3dadventure79
    @a3dadventure799 ай бұрын

    good coverage of this tool Justin. Keep up the great work bro

  • @PhantomFlex12
    @PhantomFlex12 Жыл бұрын

    This is something I did not know I needed until I needed it. Just found your channel!

  • @davidjamesmackie115
    @davidjamesmackie115 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @EIendir
    @EIendir3 ай бұрын

    This guy is life changer , thanks a lot mate solved issue just because of you !

  • @GaryParris
    @GaryParris Жыл бұрын

    i love his work, i have the book and it's brilliant resource. congrats!

  • @unicodePug
    @unicodePug10 ай бұрын

    I wish I would've known about this a couple months ago. I've been doing the cuts all by hand. Thank you, sir.

  • @spider2021
    @spider2021 Жыл бұрын

    Another great video, keep them coming.

  • @IrocZIV
    @IrocZIV Жыл бұрын

    Nice, was looking for something like this yesterday

  • @ChaosCanyon
    @ChaosCanyon Жыл бұрын

    Great tip. Will definitely try this

  • @CrowzenOver
    @CrowzenOver Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @christopher3d475
    @christopher3d475 Жыл бұрын

    That's a great tip. Modo has a feature like that I've used a bunch but didn't realize Blender did also.

  • @RealGaryGibson
    @RealGaryGibson Жыл бұрын

    Great tip. Thank you!

  • @Mooneco
    @Mooneco6 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much! This was very helpful!

  • @stolensoul6857
    @stolensoul6857 Жыл бұрын

    well explained, guru

  • @fionanimations
    @fionanimations8 ай бұрын

    thank you, this method saved me time 😊

  • @TheTubejunky
    @TheTubejunky Жыл бұрын

    Seen them on reddit. Great tricks!

  • @tomashrncir6168
    @tomashrncir6168 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @dickvancampen3318
    @dickvancampen331811 ай бұрын

    Very good

  • @simonstory29
    @simonstory2910 ай бұрын

    Thanks mate, kkep the good woork!

  • @finnmckinlay
    @finnmckinlay3 ай бұрын

    nice!

  • @pavelbeardudde9814
    @pavelbeardudde9814 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome tnx

  • @chrishoben8270
    @chrishoben82705 ай бұрын

    Thank god this video exists, cause there's no way me, as a rookie, would've figured this out

  • @cucubob9535
    @cucubob95352 ай бұрын

    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

  • @eitantal726
    @eitantal726 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @BalborValis
    @BalborValis11 ай бұрын

    how do you do it manually? Just draw a triangle to fill in a missing one.

  • @DataJuggler
    @DataJuggler Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @CGRREDACTED
    @CGRREDACTED8 ай бұрын

    hi none of that worked. I have 3 cutouts I am trying to remove and it wont select edges or loops.

  • @DaddyDairy
    @DaddyDairy Жыл бұрын

    Alt key doesn't work as intended for me...help

  • @RedSupremeX
    @RedSupremeX2 күн бұрын

    man every tutorial i se on this i dont get it i cant select 2 part at a time for some reason :(

  • @jonathaneast3727
    @jonathaneast37278 ай бұрын

    Wow.....

  • @johnrodriguez5319
    @johnrodriguez5319 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @P455w0rds
    @P455w0rds Жыл бұрын

    fuck yeah man this help a lot

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    Жыл бұрын

    Awesome!

  • @anabellespicks
    @anabellespicks10 ай бұрын

    i can't get it to work :D

  • @Alastor_070
    @Alastor_0709 ай бұрын

    It does not work

  • @FilippoRomeoMEZZOTINT
    @FilippoRomeoMEZZOTINT Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @God0fTime
    @God0fTime11 ай бұрын

    I can only imagine the math required to do that lol

  • @Hex-Mas
    @Hex-Mas9 ай бұрын

    OMG useless

  • @hermano8160
    @hermano81606 ай бұрын

    why do you talk so strange?