Doc:2.6/Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing/Basics/Creating Faces and Edges

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Make Edge/Face

Mode: Edit mode

Hotkey: F

Menu: Mesh → Faces → Make Face/Edge

This is a context sensitive tool which creates geometry by filling in the selection. When only 2 vertices are selected it will create an edge, otherwise it will create faces.

The typical use case is to select vertices and press F, however Blender also supports creating faces from different selections to help quickly build up geometry.

The following methods are used automatically depending on the context.

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Isolated vertices.

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Isolated edges

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N-gon from edges: When there are many edges Blender will make an ngon, note that this doesn't support holes, to support holes you need to use the XXX Fill Faces tool.

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Mixed vertices/edges: existing edges are used to make the face as well as an extra vertex.

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Edge-Net: sometimes you may have many connected edges without interior faces.

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Point Cloud: when there are many isolated vertices, Blender will calculate the edges for an n-gon.

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Single Vertex Selection: with a single vertex selected on a boundary, the face will be created along the boundary, this saves manually selecting the other 2 vertices. Notice this tool can run multiple times to continue creating faces.

Further Reading

For other ways to create faces see:

• Fill
• Grid Fill
• Bridge Edge Loops