Thanks Austin!

No problem!

Agreed. This style of "iris" is common in wood working type projects. I am working on a 3rd part to this with a more traditional camera Iris which has the smallest "ring" and most overlap :)

Thank you so much for the purchase!! And yeah its big! I used to use a logi desk pad that wasn't as big but i have grown to like the LEAD one.

Thank you!

Thanks :) I did but in the download in the description they are built in ;)

Great question! Part of the answer comes down to best how you as an individual learn. Everyone is a little different so that will come into play. Funny enough before creating tutorials professionally starting in 2010, i NEVER watched tutorials. I am a firm believer in learning by doing. That might be recreating something around you or coming up with something on your own. I think that all 4 things you listed are important to the process with probably 2 and 4 being more important than 1 and 3. and I say that making tutorials for a living :) Part of the reason I try to add info about the Why is simply because no two problems are the same so if you only learn to repeat what you see in a video and not the why of what you are doing it will be very hard to progress. A lot of the things I did for work before making tutorials involved coming up with new designs to solve problems BUT they involved other parts like cameras and sensors and things at the time you couldn't get CAD models for from suppliers. So i spent a lot of time modeling things that were required to fit into other designs. Taking things apart and trying to recreate them is very important for the practice but also so you can see how things are put together and designed. This is extremely valuable. So as sort of a final thought based on your 4 points. 1. Watching a tutorial is very valuable to learn a new tool or modeling approach, pick up tips from others on how they approach a problem, or just use it as a test to see where you are at. 2. Taking something apart or measuring something is important because you can see how parts are designed and assembled, get some ideas around tolerance and work to try and make shapes that others have designed. 3. Valuable as there are still a lot of opportunities to review drawings/images and try to create shapes. Keep in mind you may not always have enough info in images and will need to make educated guesses. I find this approach to be good for organic/freeform shapes, but others like to do "speed modeling". I think i did a video on that around fast modeling vs accurate modeling. 4. Probably the most important because something you decide to do will often times give you the extra push to put in more work. This can also be the most difficult as you have no reference. Hope that helps!

Sadly no. There is a "Duplicate with joint" BUT that only works if its a joint and not an as-built joint. which kind of defeats the purpose of modeling everything in place. If you made a sub-component of one wedge and one link with one joint and did a copy/paste, it would keep the joint. but then you have to manually add the other two and it wouldn't be nicely patterned... maybe one day.

Thanks a lot. Appreciate the reply

Thanks! I have avoided that but I am working on some new options. Been thinking about starting a subStack where the videos will have no ads and we can do custom vids and give-aways. We do have a merch store which has a donate option on it. learn-everything-about-desi-shop.fourthwall.com