Select the edges of the surface you want to cap and click the Fill tool.

For example, to fill an uncapped cylinder, select the open edge and click the Fill tooll.

Select the edges of a void in the middle of a surface or the edges of a void on the edge of a surface and click the Fill tool.

If you select two surface edge loops and select the Fill tool, the surfaces are extended until they intersect.

Select the round or chamfer and click the Fill tool to fill the round and create caps if necessary.

A RoundGroup is created in the Groups panel each time you fill a round.

(You can fill any round created in SpaceClaim, even a round that removes the underlying face, until the round is changed by some other action.)

Select the protrusion or depression and click the Fill tool.

If you fill the edges of a face, the edges are simplified into straight lines. You can also press Delete to simplify the edges.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can also fill all the edges of a spline surface to extend all the edges to form a simpler, larger surface. You can also press Delete to simplify the edges.

 

You can also fill complex edges on any other surface, including cones.

You can simplify multiple 3D edges across multiple surfaces or solids into one edge. Just select the edges you want to merge and click Fill.

If you want to keep internal lines, select them before clicking the Fill tool.

You can select multiple edge loops in the same solid or surface then click Fill to fill them – even if, when extended, the faces containing the edge loops would connect to other faces.

1   If you are replacing a single face, click the face you want to replace.

2   Alt+click the replacement face.

3   Select the Fill tool.

Ctrl+click any number of faces with the Select tool. Then Ctrl+Alt+click any number of additional faces. Click the Fill tool to replace the first set of faces with the second set of faces.

To fill a round

1   Select the round face.

2   Click the Fill tool or press F.

When multiple selected round faces are removed by the Fill tool, they are removed in a specific order so that they can be restored by right-clicking and selecting Reattach Rounds for each group, in reverse order. The image on the right shows edges from which rounds were removed by the Fill tool.

If removing a face makes an invalid solid, the solid is converted to a surface.

Capping round faces

You can use the Fill tool to remove and cap round faces. You might want to do this if you are trying to move a protrusion surrounded by round faces and it cannot be moved because the rounds create impossible geometry.

Usually you can just select all the round faces and click the Fill tool to remove and cap them all. However, sometimes this is not possible. In that case, select one round and fill it. If that works, undo and select that round and the next. Undo. Continue adding rounds to your selection and trying to fill them until the fill fails. Now you have identified one of the rounds that is causing the problem. Next, fill all the rounds that filled successfully. Finally, repeat this process in the other direction of the round tangent chain. Once you have filled all the rounds except for the one or two causing the problem, select the one causing the problem and its two neighbors. Then click Fill. This process allows more options for the extension of neighboring edges to intersect and cap the round.