Re: Simple way of making Golf Ball with Solidworks!

No need for projection, which would introduce trig errors.
Just get them the same "diameter" to begin with such that either
the vertexes or the face centerpoints lie on the sphere.
Then do the same with other icosehedrons rotated in 3D
about the center of the sphere.

It would be interesting to see your version of the golf ball, Cliff (if you
modeled it...). At least in my version only a tiny piece of one icosahedron
was needed, and still the result (eg. dimple distribution) was pretty good.
Of course you can use multiple, whole icosahedrons but it sounds quite
tedious to me.

-h-


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