Having drawn a half, mirror image of a glass it was then imported into Studion 3D Max.
The pivot point was, by default, placed in the centre of the image. I moved this by going into the Hierachy tab and clicking the option to Affect Pivot Point, then it was just a matter of dragging it to the desired position, easy peasy :)
When the pivot point was in the right position, I returned to the Modify tab and from the drop down menu chose Lathe....instant wine glass!! Ta DAAA
Sometimes the object came out completly black indicating that they were inside out, this was fixed by simply clicking the flip normals box when lathing.
The most challenging part was getting the pivot point in the right place, more than once my glass had a tube running through the centre because the pivot point was not close enough to the mirror line. Just a bit of trial and error to repair that.
Behold the wine glass!!!
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