Reverse engineering a flower pot

 When I originally saw the flower pot design I thought it would be relatively straight forward.

It originally looked like 2 cubes rotated at 90 degrees. 

After that it would just be a matter of cutting out the hole and moving the vertices to the correct heights.

This is was I originally thought was going to be needed as a base shape to build from. I was really wrong and the design is actually more complex that this. 

This is the flower pot starting to take shape. There were a lot of sharp angles and it wasn't exactly smooth sailing like I thought it would be.

I tried to bevel the whole thing in object mode and this happened... I don't even know what went wrong. I discovered I had to select certain edges at a time, the bevel. Even then if I did them in the wrong order strange things would happen.

This was another strange issue that happened more than once. This face had some weird error where these invisible edges would cross over one another. It would be an easy fix but you could not select or see it unless the face was selected and I was trying to use the multi cut tool. I wasn't even able to select them then. I had to delete the face a few times and try different things like 'fill hole' and 'target weld' which then created other problems.

This was the result of having to delete the problematic face.

This is the result of using the 'fill hole' tool. It created a double face in the drainage hole.

I ended up trying to use Boolean/Difference with a cylinder. That just recreated the 'Ghost' geometry issue I was having in the beginning. Lines crossing over that didn't exist.

I ended up having to completely fill the hole and created this geometry using target welding. I actually learned quite a bit trying to fix this issue and overall it was fun. I did have one error that I just couldn't get rid of. Every time I sent my flower pot over to Mudbox I got the same error. I tried cleaning it up multiple times and it was always the same error.

From what I can tell it was some kind of double edge somewhere. I looked everywhere for this thing. I couldn't find it. 

I send my pot off on 31/5/22 to be printed. I haven't heard anything back from Dom yet and everything is due today. I had a class on Thursday and I think I saw it printing but I could only see it from the front window. I think I might drive in to UNH and see if it's finished and someone is there on a Sunday... Maybe I'll do that now.