Reply To: Is this hard surface geometry ok?

Thanks for your feedback Delores, you have indeed been very helpful. :heart:

However, maybe I’m not being clear in my communication. This isn’t an issue of lack of self-confidence or feeling in general like a I have to perfect a practice piece before moving on to the next practice piece. 

So let me get a bit more specific with my questions:

1. Is the general design of having a ring of faces around screw holes (and the C-shaped hole) an industry best practice?

2. If so, should it generally be a single ring, or multiple rings? If it varies how I can I learn when to know when to use a single ring or multiple rings? ie is there a general best practice guideline that can be followed?

3. If rings around screw holes is normally a best practice, in a piece like this does it over-complicated the topology and should it be reserved for complex pieces?

4. If the rings around the holes is generally acceptable, are there issues with this specific layout other than the number of rings? For example, can have a ring of faces directly acting as an objects outside edge cause issues? Should I instead create a loop that wraps around the entire outside edge of the object, have the holes have small rings of faces around them, then connect the hole-loops to the outside loop? If single rings are ok, then I assume its ok for there to be a single face between a screw hole and the objects outside edge as seen in the top right screw hole, though to me this seems like a suspect design.

5. There are three five-sided poles in the current topology. Is it better to keep the overall current design of the topology or try to eliminate or reduce the number of poles? (this is basically another way of saying question 3)