The answer to the question what to start with will come with experience…and even then, there are more than one way to do things, so there will often be several possibilities, that are equally good, to start with…most of the times, you won’t think about it and just start…sometimes you’ll find, that it might have been better to start with another Primitive, or a Curve, instead of a Mesh Primitive…
Often (but not always), I start with a Circle to make a cylindrical structure, instead of with a Cylinder…Is that better? Probably not…3D is not all about rules…just follow your guts and be prepared to start over if it doesn’t work out.
