Why can't I duplicate faces in place? I'm trying to duplicate a loop of faces on a bottle shape to create a label.
I can do it successfully if I drag the duplicate faces away from the original bottle and then separate the vertices by selection.
Problem is, when I leave the duplicate vertices in place and the try to separate them by selection, Blender then deletes the original faces underneath the new faces, leaving me with a hole in my bottle.
What am I doing wrong?
You have to hit Enter right after you hit Duplicate with Shift+D. This locks in the duplication. If you don't do that, Blender deletes the underlying verts once you do the separation step.