From the course: Meshmixer: Function and Command Reference

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Bridge - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Bridge

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- [Instructor] This video is on the Bridge command, which is really, really useful in cleaning up meshes that have a lot of problems. So I'm click on Select, and make my brush a little bit smaller, and start painting on this a very complex shape, and I'm going to hit the Delete key to get rid of it. So, I'm going to try to fill this in, I'm going to double-click on this boundary, here. See, it selected that. And, hit the Fill key. So, it did it a little bit, not really the best. You can see that it tried to do as much as it could, but there's all sorts of things going wrong. This area is still out, this area's still out, lots of things going wrong. So, a way to do this, I'm going to undo and go back in, cancel this, is to start fixing this mesh in a little bit more deliberate fashion. So, I'm going to clear the selection. So, we would use the Bridge tool to fix this mesh. I'm going to focus up here, click the C button to center, going to go into Select, and the Bridge tool works on…

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