> Look at the belt. It's circular. Ever tried drawing a circle using pencil 
> and paper? (Hint: It's physically impossible.) Sure, you can move the 
> verticies around after you've drawn them. But it would still be hopelessly 
> hard to arrange 80 points into a near-perfect curve like that.

"Add -> Circle" and work from there?

> And that's just making the outline; next you have to somehow model the 
> height of the belt,

"Edit -> Extrude" until it looks about the right height?

> not to mention its thickness.

"Edit -> Extrude" until it looks about the right thickness?

> Impossibility upon impossibility.

If it's impossible how come a relatively novice Blender user can do what you 
just described in under 30 seconds?

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