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Snap-Together Soccer Ball - Interlocking Shapes
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Snap-Together Soccer Ball - Interlocking Pentagons & HexagonsA printable, snap-assembly soccer ball made from 32 interlocking pieces. No glue. No hardware. Just satisfying clicks.What Is It?This is a snap-together soccer ball built from the classic truncated icosahedron — 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons. Each piece has a custom dee-shaped interlocking bar on every edge that clicks and locks into its neighbor with a satisfying detent snap.Print all 32 pieces, pop them together, and you've got a rigid decorative ball about ~200mm in diameter depending on your print settings. Assembly TipsStart with one pentagon in the center of your work surfaceSnap 5 hexagons around it — they click in one axis at a time, like a zipperAdd the next ring of pentagons — 5 of them alternate between the hexagonsWork around the ball in rings; the last few pieces take a little convincingThe final closing pentagon may need firm thumb pressure — that's normal, the accumulated tolerance stack means the last p
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