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I'm trying to fill empty space in my mesh, and I looked at the knife tool page on the Blender Wiki, and I'm not sure if there's a way to make it so that a new edge is made using the knife tool. I took a screenshot, and hopefully it'll explain better than I can of what I'm trying to do. Oh and I'm using Blender version 2.71, by the way.

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    read this http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/9373/how-can-i-automatically-create-edges-according-to-the-number-of-vertices/9375#9375 –  Aug 13 '14 at 07:19

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In your particular situation, it looks like the bridge tool is what you want. Select two or more edge loops with AltShiftRMB, and then connect them with W>Bridge Edge Loops:

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Fill

To do exactly what it looks like you are trying to do in your screenshot (connecting two vertices with an edge), select the two vertices and press F to create edge/face.

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If you have the bundled F2 addon enabled you can create a new face from the selected edge and the surrounding vertices by pressing F again. The side on which the new face is created is controlled by the cursor position.

Knife

The knife tool is for cutting edges into existing faces:

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  • Did you manually select those vertices in the last gif? If not would you mind telling me what key you held down before selecting multiple vertices at once? – Marie Aug 13 '14 at 07:33
  • @Marie Click Alt+RMB to select edge loops. For more info: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Selecting/Edges –  Aug 13 '14 at 07:40
  • @Marie Alt Shift RMB to select multiple loops (Shift maintains the existing selection) – gandalf3 Aug 13 '14 at 07:48
  • This answer would be better if it noted bridge first (since this answers the question) – ideasman42 Aug 13 '14 at 09:27
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    Do note that in the second gif the F2 addon is enabled. – David Aug 13 '14 at 15:29
  • @David Good catch, I thought that I was using the F2-like behavior which was added in 2.67, but it seems that it's not working in this case? (bug?) – gandalf3 Aug 13 '14 at 18:53
  • @ideasman42 Good point. Reformatted, hopefully it's easier to parse now. – gandalf3 Aug 13 '14 at 19:00
  • I hope I don't add to the confusion here with more F2 talk. You're correct that the F2 Addon is not necessary anymore for that behavior. However, I found that it works best when in Edge-Mode. Repeatedly filling in faces like that using Vertex Mode was buggy for a long time and maybe still is so I always do that in Edge mode which seems much more consistent and stable. – MarcClintDion Aug 13 '14 at 19:32
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enter image description hereIn Blender 2.8+ right click and the specials menu appears (no longer 'W' shortcut).

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