I've been using Blender for about a month. I have been going through the course by Neal Hirsig. I am creating the Martini Glass in lesson 5. I am having trouble with the gin. (No, I didn't try to drink it!)

In the tutorial we...

1. select the inside faces of the glass and then hit Shift-D
2. Move the duplicate up and away from the glass.
3. Select the top vertices and move them down.
4. Select the entire gin object and move it back into the glass and then scale it fit.
5. Select the top vertices and press Shift-F to create a cap on the gin object.

That's where the problem begins. Shift-F doesn't create a face. It seems to put you in grab view mode. If you aren't careful, it will throw you model completely off screen. (Believe me, I know!)

I found that Alt-F will cap it, but for some reason, it isn't completely smooth. It looks messy in Edit mode with triangles. And in object model, it isn't completely smooth. I undid that and then I drew rectangular faces myself. But it still wasn't smooth. And some of the faces had transparent hatch patterns on them. Also, I was unable to select all the faces with circle select after I drew them. (I was going to delete them since they weren't right either.) I ended up deleting the entire gin object.

Is it because the normals aren't facing the right way? Could there be multiple vertices in the same place? (Not sure why that would be. After we spun the wine glass, we had to remove duplicates.)

Anyway, after all this, I needed the gin!....Just kidding.

I'm actually liking Blender. There are a lot of good tutorials out there.

Thanks.