Filling Multiple Holes on a Sheet Body

The fill holes operation identifies holes and boundary cut outs on a surface of a sheet body and allows you to fill them in a single operation.

  1. To fill the holes on a sheet body:
    • Right-click on the Feature node and select the Fill Holes option. Select a sheet body in the 3D-CAD View scene.
    • Alternatively, in the 3D-CAD View scene, right-click on a sheet body and select Repair Tools > Fill Holes.
    The Fill Holes panel appears.

  2. To add further sheet bodies, click in the Sheet Bodies box then select them in the graphics window.
  3. To identify holes that you want to exclude from the hole-filling process:
    1. Click inside the Exclude Holes box.
    2. Select the edges of the holes that you want to exclude from filling.
      You can double-click a free edge to select all other free edges in the same loop. To select a portion of edges in a chain, first select a starting edge, press and hold the Shift key, then select the edge for the end of the chain.


  4. To identify boundary cut-outs that you want to fill:
    1. Click inside the Edges To Delete box.
    2. Select the edges of the boundary cut out. You can select edges for multiple cut-outs at the same time.
    The following example demonstrates how to fill a boundary cut out using the Edges To Delete panel.

  5. Click OK in the Fill Holes panel to complete the feature.
    A Fill Holes node is added to the 3D-CAD feature tree. If the Fill Holes node appears with a warning sign, then some of the holes were not successfully filled with a surface.