Nice work, Keppel! I don't know if it will help much since Keppel explained it well enough already, but here's a quick video of how I would do it. It's basically the same way Keppel suggested. I begin the video with the surface, just after subdividing the cube and removing the necessary polygons. Hope this is also helpful.

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