[sircastor]

I think I watched a couple of videos - really just to get going from the "How do I make a block that looks like this?" I didn't initially understand the idea of workbenches so just having someone say "Do this here" helped. A recent example of using a video to help me understand was how to generate a bevel gear.

After that, I would run into questions and google searches tend to help a lot. Just last week I was trying to figure out how to cut a hole in a curved surface and found a forum thread that suggested a good solution. (That solution felt a little weird from a design standpoint, but it worked, and the history was maintainable.)

Searchable forums are tremendously useful for software packages at this level.