Efficient way to replicate a tutorial example

Hi,
As part of my learning, I’m trying to replicate something from the tutorials that’s giving me a bit of a headache.
I’ve been trying to replicate this box (cf. img attachment)

  1. I have no problem creating the cut-out in one face
  2. However I’m struggling to find an efficient way to do it on all the faces of the cube.

My initial idea was to create a component for the cut-out and then “paste” it to all the faces of the cube, but I don’t know how to align the cut-out to the center of each face.

I’m wondering what are the best ways to approach this (admittedly simple) problem.

Thanks for the help

You could use Flip or Rotate

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or Move and Rotate tools

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If you ever get the newest Pro one day, you can also do it with Snaps (angled at 45 deg). Which is possibly not as efficient as it is fun.

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Thank you very much for your answers. They greatly help.
So in this case the ideal solution would be to recreate the cube from duplicating the panes.

One additional question: say that you already have a geometry on which you’d like to create those cut-outs. In this case would you use a component that you would “paste” on that geometry ?

Thanks a ton Nick :pray:
I didn’t know about snaps. I’m going to give it a try

What does this geometry look like? How was it created? What are you going to do with the created object?

I didn’t have a concrete example in mind, it was mere curiosity about how to replicate cut components to surfaces.
But I think that there are already topics on this matter I should read first.
Thanks again for the help

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