Challenge for you super slicers - STL Importer - Baseball

[bergerud]

How about something like this? I have no idea how it would turn out. It would take some tweaking for sure. I think the straight cutting bit is required to get the vertical side gluing surfaces.

(Also would need tabs on the pierced pieces.)

[oscarl48]

lol. you are making me use math.

If I align a cube that barely touches the inside the ball sphere surface I get about 1.65 x 1.65 inches.

2.85 - 1.65 = 1.2

1.2 / 2 = .6

So sliced the horizontal pieces by .6 (front, back, left, right) which left a top and bottom long center piece. I could have also cut at .6 but I'm worried about the bit carve angle so reduced the depth of cut to .45.

So it comes out to a 6 piece slice. Still will not be perfect. It will still have some deformation at the edges.

P.S. I did not see Dan's example before posting. His will be better. He's smarter at math than I am.

[Durtdawber]

Thanks to everyone. I'm not sure any one solution will do it but I got some great ideas with all of the knowledge input.

If anyone else has an idea, be sure to post it up.

Connie, if you see this, how about getting one of the on-staff "Pros" to give us their take on this.

Donnie