Close the end of a sculpty plane Blender

Sorry in advance if this is a dumb newbie question.

The item I am working with is much easier to build if I start with a plane, but how do I then close the ends so it is a closed solid piece? For example, if I fold it back on itself and say create a long rectangular piece, how then would I go about connecting the end to the beginning, and then the sides too . . . would that then make me lose vertices and then not be a good sculpty?

I have played with a blender plane recently and i created a video tutorial on this issue, see http://blog.machinimatrix.org/tutorials there watch the "sculpted prims for blender purist" and in our newest "NURBS to Sculptie" tutorial we show an even easier generic way to generate sculpties by using the node editor (watch the last 2 minutes of the video) .

Basically if you are folding your plane, you will have to "stitch the seams". You will always have 1024 faces, but depending on how many seams you have, you will end up with more or less vertices (since the vertices at the stitching ends are duplicates and thus you will remove them while stitching):

so a plane will have 33*33 vertices (no seams)
a tube and a sphere will have 33*32 vertices (1 seam)
a torus will have 32*32 = 1024 vertices (2 seams)

But all of them have 32*32 faces!

Maybe you are also interested in checking out /8/60/203571/1.html ?

Out of curiosity: What are you building ?