How to grid-fill a spiral

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In my newest project I've made a line spiraling downwards in the shape of a sphere, as seen below:

You can also see how I started to fill the gaps with faces, this was done by manually picking every edge and adding a face.

So I was wondering: is there any other way to quickly fill all the gaps?

Thanks for reading!

I think the F2 addon (comes with Blender) should do this. – PGmath Jan 22 '16 at 16:42 — PGmath, Jan 22 '16 at 16:42

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:57

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There is an addon called F2 (comes bundled with Blender by default) which could speed this up.

To enable the addon go to File > User Preferences > Addons (or Ctrl+Alt+U) and search for F2 and enable it.

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Once enabled, this addon adds two new functions to the F key, one of which should speed up your workflow considerably (the other is described here). Just create the first face of the spiral, then select the inside edge of the new face and hit F to create a new face along the spiral. Then keep pressing F until you have filled the spiral.

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edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:57

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answered Jan 22 '16 at 17:00

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Thanks so much! People like you are the reason I love this community. Just curious though, how do you make those .GIFs? Again, thanks for taking your time :) – Espen Sales Jan 23 '16 at 08:44
@EspenSales See this meta post on GIFs. (If this answer has suffeciently solved your problem you can mark it as accepted by clicking the checkmark under the voting buttons.) – PGmath Jan 23 '16 at 17:18

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