I'm trying to learn to different ways to accomplish a task, so I'm hoping someone would like to offer me some pointers. Let's say I wanted to create a simple bucket shape (we'll not that simple since the top is not planar).

So I can start with two curves:



The bottom one happens to be planar. Then I can Loft between them and get this:



And then use Offset:Shell to get a solid:



From there I can make a bottom from the curve there and turn that into a solid and union them together, etc etc.

What are some other ways to accomplish the same thing? I tried to use the surface that resulted from the Loft to cut the shape out of a solid, but didn't have much luck with that.

Still learning...Scott