3D baseball pattern

[chief2007]

Ok looking for a 3D pattern to carve a wooden baseball.

I have a young man that collects baseballs and asked if I could carve him a full size wooden baseball

This is a freebie for him do any help is appreciated.

Steve

[gwhiz]

It's going to have to be done in slices...your carve depth is less than an inch and a baseball is just under 3" diameter...

[bergerud]

It can be done in one piece. Recall the sphere in the cube. It was only a 2 inch sphere but it can be made much larger (limited only by the 5 inch machine height). If you can figure out how to add the seam and stitch pattern, it could be a baseball. Another option would be to find a 3d baseball on the web and use the STL importer to chop it up with 45 degree planes to get the same sphere patches as in the sphere in cube mpc.

[Alan Malmstrom]

Here is a height map I made. If you import it and place it inside of Designer without resizing it and then set it as a peirced carve with a height of 999 and add some tabs to it and carve on a 3/4 inch board it will carve out as a 3 inch baseball. You have to carve two patterns so you have 4 pieces.

The problem is that the sides of the seem stitch will not carve out perfectly. But it should glue together OK.

Alan

[jpaluck]

Here is a bump map of the threads

[Alan Malmstrom]

Here is a bump map of the threads

Hey John

I tried to PM you but your folder is full.

Alan

[chief2007]

Thank you all gentlemen I will give it a carve and post the results, Going to try them all

[bergerud]

I managed to find a 3d baseball and converted it to STL. If you want to play with it, it is attached (as a .mpc to be renamed .stl).

[chief2007]

I managed to find a 3d baseball and converted it to STL. If you want to play with it, it is attached (as a .mpc to be renamed .stl).

I sure will thanks much, one to add to the carve list.