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Fill Hole Macro

Fill Hole Macro

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Fill Hole Macro

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The Fill Hole dialog fills in one or more holes in your geometry with automatically-generated mesh.

Note:This macro does not remove any rigid spiders that currently fill the hole; if necessary, delete the rigid spider before using this macro.

When you open the Fill Hole function, a new dialog opens:

macro_fillholeswithmesh

There are two methods of filling holes:

Manual

Use this option to select the holes that you wish to fill:

1.Click the yellow Select Nodes button. The panel area is once again displayed, with a nodes selector active.
2.Select nodes on the edges of the holes that you wish to fill.
3.Click proceed in the panel area. The Filling holes with mesh dialog returns, with the Select Nodes button now green to indicate that nodes have been chosen.
4.Click Fill to fill the selected holes with mesh.

Automatic

Use this option to select holes automatically based on size. Type a value into the entry field labeled Fill circular holes with radius smaller than. The model is automatically scanned for holes smaller than this value, and attempt to fill them with mesh.

Fill

Click this button to perform the fill operation, whether you choose to select your holes manually or automatically.

Reject

If you do not like the results of the last fill operation, click this button to undo it.

Note:This only undoes a single click of the fill button, so it can only undo multiple fills if they were created simultaneously during a single fill operation.

Close

Close the dialog.

See Also:

Geom/Mesh Utility Menu