Maya and the Hole filling disaster

olgakoupt

Heyya,
I'm trying to model a curved ceiling. I did a serious bevel on all corners except floor and I got 2 rows of mystery ploys I had to remove. 
1. How to select in chunks like in 3ds max i could select an edge, tell the program to ring, then i can convert edges to faces, boom=done. is there a maya equivalent to this breezy way?
2. How do I fill this hole without bridging every edge? the "Fill Hole" option creates 100% ngon city
Thanks fam!

fade1

Just double click one edge of your hole -> the whole border will be selected, fill hole, triangulate, quadrangulate, done
or
select the left edge on top, shift+double click on the last edge of the top row, shift+click the left edge of the lower edge row, shift+double click the last edge of the lower row, bridge, done (usually this works, sometimes maya screws up the selection. depends on the complexity..)

olgakoupt

Thank you so much! 

throttlekitty

For ring selection, there's a few ways:
a) Select edge, ctrl+rmb snap southwest, snap south. (convert to edge ring, convert to face selection)
b) Select a whatever, then shift and double click on a neighbor whatever to get a ring or loop of whatevers.