# Please could someone kindly help me with step by step guide to making a golf ball

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**Created:** [July 21, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/please-could-someone-kindly-help-me-with-step-by-step-guide-to-making-a-golf-ball/38852 "2025-07-21T22:30:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gpk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@Gpk](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Gpk)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/please-could-someone-kindly-help-me-with-step-by-step-guide-to-making-a-golf-ball/38852/1 "2025-07-21T22:30:21Z")

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Hi , I am new to shapr3d and would kindly ask for some guidance, I have searched for hours trying to find more help on creating a golf ball but even when I watch a certain video, it seems I get stuck on a certain point every time and I get errors. Could someone help me with a step by step guide in how to make a golf ball please ? Have added a picture to show the errors I’m getting .

I’m getting to a stage where:

Section view  
Drawing a smaller circle on top for the dimples  
Resizing and selecting 3 lines but as soon as I click on make construction I’m just left with dotted lines and errors.

I’m hoping I have described this as simple as possible. Thanks for your time.

Glyn

 ![IMG_1046](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/0/6/06045a65b8bdf912268a8989c3029f7183a4f0e6.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![TigerMike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/tigermike/32/32650_2.png) [@TigerMike](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TigerMike)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/please-could-someone-kindly-help-me-with-step-by-step-guide-to-making-a-golf-ball/38852/2 "2025-07-21T23:45:39Z")

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Here’s a screen grab of a golf ball I made several years ago and before the Pattern tool was implemented. Also attached is my old Shapr3D file if interested. I essentially eyeballed subtracting the dimples.

 ![golf ball](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/4/5/452ff2825ca4609d267c320f54e9d7056480a123.jpeg)

[Golf ball.shapr](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/uploads/short-url/hhOZ8UFCdZNw2ZeraXkrwtX5ZzK.shapr) (146.1 KB)

Note a couple of things about the video. The two rows of dimples in blue are rotated horizontally with respect to the radius sketch of the main golf ball. Then I highlighted the dimples that are aligned with the sketch radius (just for explanation). I would copy rotate the small dimple sphere in increments along the ball radius and at each step would make a row of dimples (use the Pattern tool for this) then subtract them from the ball. After completing one half of the ball I mirrored the rotate the bottom half by 6° for correct orientation to the upper ball half followed by a final union.

I don’t remember my workflow for this other than most of it was done by eyeball as I wanted to make a golf ball model but not necessarily accurate. Others can (and will) pipe in and offer many solutions.

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**Author:** ![Gpk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@Gpk](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Gpk)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/please-could-someone-kindly-help-me-with-step-by-step-guide-to-making-a-golf-ball/38852/3 "2025-07-22T11:59:11Z")

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Thank you so much for your help.

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**Author:** ![Xdrakosha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/xdrakosha/32/24881_2.png) [@Xdrakosha](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Xdrakosha)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/please-could-someone-kindly-help-me-with-step-by-step-guide-to-making-a-golf-ball/38852/4 "2025-07-22T12:45:00Z")

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More or less like that.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/0/4/04e228278de4e856be45636fec40a6bc2e65f19d.jpeg)

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/e/c/ecfbd9222498bf85436dad4403a8ddbc23eec448.jpeg "golf ball") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaHcb5FKb8U)

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**Author:** ![Gpk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@Gpk](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Gpk)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/please-could-someone-kindly-help-me-with-step-by-step-guide-to-making-a-golf-ball/38852/5 "2025-07-22T21:58:57Z")

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Perfect thank you so much

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**Author:** ![SCALEMODEL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@SCALEMODEL](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/SCALEMODEL)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/please-could-someone-kindly-help-me-with-step-by-step-guide-to-making-a-golf-ball/38852/6 "2025-07-23T17:34:33Z")

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Thought I try the Soccer Ball example for the Golf Ball.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/9/3/93a4c90be70901ed2eddc70f43bdb21bfb9dafda.jpeg)

If anyone wants to try pattern looks something like this.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/a/f/af567c903c8772e012feda5d354da8da39c4aea7.jpeg)  
V2 Idea

Was trying to do this example.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/1/c/1c3b4ac697158d687a05ffc76afe5ccb6e89dac8.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![SCALEMODEL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@SCALEMODEL](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/SCALEMODEL)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/please-could-someone-kindly-help-me-with-step-by-step-guide-to-making-a-golf-ball/38852/7 "2025-09-17T08:50:17Z")

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While looking at a golf ball I realized I should use variables to densely pack as much indentations as possible.

 ![Screenshot 2025-09-17 at 1.44.35 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/f/3/f310be9f6809a939e5adf9bd102ba3ded0dc24ab.jpeg)

 ![Screenshot 2025-09-17 at 1.49.21 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/1/a/1aef9625195953d79c41e462ca72e1139f18fe17.jpeg)