Jumping right in with your form intersections, overall you're doing really well. I did notice a few little hiccups, but they were honestly revolving around intersections that were themselves mindbenders, even for me. I made some notes here on the page, but from what I can see, you're demonstrating a solid understanding of the core mechanics of these intersections in the rest of your work. I will drop this diagram in as well, as I usually share it at this point, but I believe you already understand what's conveyed there.

Continuing onto your object constructions, you may have had a tough time with all this by your own reporting, but I don't believe that difficulty stemmed from a lack of understanding. I think it's very clear throughout your work that the difficulty simply came from the fact that you were fully willing to put your all into this, and take every construction as far as it could reasonably go. That takes time, that takes patience, and that takes care - all things that tend to manifest to us more as amorphous difficulty, if we aren't giving ourselves credit for what we're putting in.

For all that hard work, you have done a phenomenal job. Despite the admittedly haphazard delivery of the lesson material (which for the time being we'll continue to try to address through these critiques, at least until our overhaul can reach this lesson and beyond), you internalized every concept that was explained, and there is no where this is demonstrated more clearly than in your use of the orthographic plans. You allowed each object to establish just how far each orthographic plan would have to be taken, based on the specific elements that you wished to include in your construction. Each orthographic plan was established as a set of decisions, rather than simply arbitrary observations, and those decisions were transferred cleanly and specifically to your construction, one step at a time. With examples like this bucket, you were willing to go to lengths far greater than most - admittedly we do have a decent number of students who are as hardworking and resilient as you, but it is still fair to say that it exceeds what I expect just out of an attempt to be reasonable. You were very unreasonable in this, but in the best of ways.

I have no complaints whatsoever. You've done a fantastic job, and I hope to see the same when you tackle Lesson 7. For most I explain that Lesson 7 is essentially what you've done here, just way, way, way more complex - but in your case, I'm not sure that's true. In fact, you may find that Lesson 7 is similar in challenge to what you've done here, just with different subject matter - but I suppose you'll find out, and I have faith that no matter the task, you'll invest as much time and effort as you need to see it through to the best of your ability, as that is clearly what you have demonstrated here.

I'll go ahead and mark this lesson as complete. Keep up the fantastic work.

Edit: I realized that in my enthusiasm I missed your question - although I will need some clarification to that. Can you point out examples of each method? It's likely that the answer is that both are acceptable and that it comes down to whatever you are most comfortable with (since I'm not seeing anything wrong with any of your constructions), but if you can point to them specifically I'll be able to answer with more confidence. There's always a chance that there's something minute I may have missed that tips the scales in one direction or another.