Part Design - Trying to create a soccer ball

[Davide_sd]

I'm trying to create a soccer ball with the Part Design workbench. Usually, a soccer ball is composed by pentagons and hexagon shapes.

The idea was to create one Body for the pentagon-"cone" and one Body for the hexagon-"cone", then copy them around.

I can "easily" create the pentagon-"cone" by extruding a pentagon, use the "Create a Pocket" tool to remove one inclined side, and polar repeat the pocket.

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The problem is that I'm unable to repeat the process for the hexagon-"cone": once I try to polar-repeat the pocket around the normal axis to the hexagon, I get "gp_Dir() - input vector has zero norm".

How would you create these two bodies?

I'm attaching the file....

soccer-ball-2.FCStd

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[NewJoker]

Check this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxVilN7SQ3Y

[papyblaise]

I think I remember that there is a macro to make a polyhedron

[drmacro]

I think I remember that there is a macro to make a polyhedron

There is a whole workbench...

[chrisb]

I had posted this to the wrong forum: there is the folding attachment mode.