Any quick tips for best practices for this project?

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Hello! I’m just learning the tool and I’d like to get generic opinions about best practices as I move onto the next stage of my first project. I’ve chosen to squander a ton of time making a custom gridfinity tray for my Bambu hot ends. Yup. There are many available, but I’m trying to learn with something relevant to me. The ultimate goal is the cut the model in half and use it to boolean subtract from a tray surface to rest the hot end into.

I built this model with circles and squares, extruding as I went to match the hot end profile.

I dread losing the step details as I’m sure I’ll need to adjust them. So would you set the original aside, clone it and union it before moving on to additional steps? Is there any approach that I’m assuredly unaware of for partitioning stages of an assembly that would let me roll up steps to eliminate noise, while not losing them? Like grouping or sub projects?

Thank you.

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You shouldn’t lose anything, that’s what the history is for. you can go back to any step you made, modify it or remove it.

If you want some ease of mind, you can always just duplicate your created geometry and hide it. There is unfortunately still no one-click duplicate option, but you can select your object, use the move tool, select “copy” and just type in 0mm.

You can also put items in folders to keep your items list a little tidier.

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