Cap holes

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There are lots of ways to cap a single hole in a polygon mesh. But can anyone cap the hole in this file. I can at the moment if I extract the boarder edges convert to points , connect the points and then skin, etc etc quite involved and not that fast , so is there a better way !

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What about using PolyCap SOP with “*” in group mask field?
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Interesting , but if you attempt a simple poly cap you get only the square forming the face.

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this is one of cases where there is more than 1 logical capped scenarios, however topologically the most logical is capping the box and capping the hemisphere individually, that's what PolyCap will do even if you select edges.

so while not universal solution, if you wish to cap clipped object in a way you expect, you can generate caps using Divide sop/Hole sop thanks to the planar nature of clip

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Stella work Tomas , certainly far less nodes than my solution !

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