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Filled Surface

The Filled Surface feature constructs a surface patch with any number of sides, within a boundary defined by existing model edges, sketches, or curves, including composite curves.

You can use this feature to construct a surface to fill a gap in a model. You can use the Filled Surface

tool in these cases:

Correct a part that does not import correctly into SolidWorks (where there are missing faces).
Fill the holes in a part used for core and cavity molding.
Construct a surface for industrial design applications.
Create a solid. Include features as separate entities, or merge those features.

To create a filled surface, click Filled Surface on the Surfaces toolbar, or click Insert > Surface > Fill, set the PropertyManager options, and click OK .

Contents

Filled Surface PropertyManager

Set the PropertyManager options based on the type of filled surface you want to create.
Example of Multiple Curvature Control

This example of an imported surface has a gap along the front face. To patch the surface correctly, you must apply a different curvature control type to the different boundary edges.
Example of Filled Surface Imported Surface

This example of a casing is an imported surface. One of the faces in this example has failed. You can repair it by using filled surface.
Example of Filled Surface Industrial Design

This model uses sketches as patch boundaries for the filled surface. To help shape the patch, it also uses sketch points and a spline as constraint curves.

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