Video Description

Discover the enhanced Grid Fill tool in Blender 4.5 LTS with Jan van den Hemel from Blender Secrets. This update introduces powerful new features to streamline your workflow.

Selecting and Filling Holes

• Select a hole in geometry by alt left-clicking on a boundary.
• Press Ctrl+F and then G to fill the hole, or go to Face > Grid Fill.
• The surface is filled, accounting for curvature.

Creating Curved Surfaces

• Extrude vertices to create an outline.
• Use Grid Fill to create a perfect curved surface.
• Ideal for working with reference images.

Vertex Requirements

• Requires an even number of vertices.
• Enable statistics to see vertex count.
• Select two rails of an edge loop for better results.

Redistributing Vertices

• Add or dissolve an edge.
• Use the edge flow extension or loop tools extension’s space feature.

New in Blender 4.5 LTS

• Select existing faces and retopologize them.
• Replaces ngons and triangles with quads.
• Requires an even number of vertices around the selection.

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