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Erase and Fill

Erase and Fill - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Erase and Fill

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- [Narrator] This video is on the Erase & Fill command. Go into Select, I'm going to draw a loop around this bunny's head to select it. And go to Edit, Erase & Fill. So you have some options here. Smooth MVC creates kind of a smooth transition or smooth fill, I'll talk about that more later. Flat Minimal and hit W to turn on wire frame, gives you a very kind of minimal fill, this is very fast to do the cutting but Meshmixer really doesn't like these big long triangles like this. You'll run into problems with sculpting and other tools later. So the better one to use is Flat Remeshed which creates a nice mesh. A very hard transition from one side to the other but a nice mesh to do things in there. We're finding, if you drag this all the way down, gives you very large triangles, and dragging it up to around 50 gives triangles of a similar size to the rest part of the mesh. If you drag it up more, you'll get slightly smaller triangles compared to the other parts of your mesh but not too…

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