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How to use it
- Pick the size (basketball sizes 1–7, or your own diameter) and the wall thickness.
- Choose the mesh: hole shape (hexagons, round, stars, hearts…), even or in rows, hole size and bar width.
- Choose the seams: basketball, beach ball, cross, stripes or none, raised, grooved or coloured.
- Add a logo in the left panel: text, an SVG or a PNG/JPG, raised, inlaid, engraved or cut out.
- Export the 3MF and print it in one piece with tree supports, or as two halves dome-up and a ring that presses them together.
What you can do
Seams
Solid bands with no holes: the classic basketball lines, beach-ball gores, a cross or stripes.
Logos
One logo or two on opposite sides, on a solid panel you can move round the ball.
One piece or halves
One piece by default (print with tree supports). Or split it at the equator: A ring sits in a step inside both edges to join them.
Tips
Use 95A TPU and print slowly. 2.5–4 mm walls bounce well.
A mesh ball doesn’t hold air. It bounces like a toy ball, not a pumped-up basketball.
Try it yourself
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