patterining on sphere

SPHER PATTERN – GOLF BALL IN ONSHAPE

Creating pattern around sphere, such as Golf Ball is quite challenging in CAD like Onshape, Fusion360 or Solidworks. Wrapping profile into 360 deg sphere is quite impossible. The profile will be distorted or it will be placed in wrong map.

If we refer to a sphere from meshed 3D application like Blender, By using triangle or quad polygon, We can see the best pattern distribution. And translating that into CAD needs an advanced maths, by creating a point center by mapping it into the sphere surface. Quite complex, but here are a few distribution list you can apply on a sphere

golf ball in onshape

In Onshape, Default wrap feature is still limited on Cylinder and Cone. Wrapping profile on a sphere is still impossible, unless we created a Custom Feature Script.

So here are 2 Custom Feature Script that you can try if  you want to wrap some basic profile (circle, hexagon, square, diamond) on a sphere that I called it Sphere Pattern, or if you want to create a golf ball design.

These scripts are not stable. You can custom and improved it. You can share your improved version with me as well.

Stay tuned, I will share to you an Advanced Wrap custom script soon.

https://youtu.be/6Gj9WQtNdkc