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tadian
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Hello, I have a half torus in the example scene. How could one bridge the edges like in maya. End result for the example would be like the top half of a torus but as a closed object. Hope that makes sense.

I tried skin and polybridge.
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I thought one of the newer cap/fill tools would do it, but I couldn't make them behave.

Fell back to a cunning trick a co-worker showed me; divide sop with ‘remove shared edges’ enabled, hole sop, merge and fuse.

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Two nodes in the blue netbox.

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see attached.

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Just saw Mestelas post after I did.

If you want only one primitive/polygon like Mestela did;

The node in the green netbox.

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Whoa. Nicely done. These are very viable solutions. Thank you very much for the tips and trick

Quick question about the last solution. Why does this need the sort node? I see it does, just curious as to the reasoning. Also, nice vex. Any tips on where to start learning vex. I've been taking classes on python, but this is pretty nice stuff right here.

Again thank you all. Very very nice solutions.
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cpb wins points for thoroughness.
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Why does this need the sort node?

So that most of the vex code can create the polygon sequentially from one point to the next, using a simple incrementing ‘for’ loop.
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Yeah CPB. That's exactly what I was looking for. Getting the bridge to work like maya. That's a really nice methodology. Thanks for sharing. And mestela. Thank you as well. Again all very nice solutions. These solutions helped me learn few things.
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