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Honeycomb Pattern on a 1/4 Sphere face
iliana_simental
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Can you provide an example image of what your trying to do?
Here is an example of how to make a
spherical hexagon / honeycomb / polyhedron
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/22374/help-with-self-intersecting-sweep-around-complex-path…
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It's not possible to tessellate a sphere with regular hexagons; a Goldberg polyhedron (think a soccer/football) is the best you'll get.
You can use this custom feature and then split the sphere? https://cad.onshape.com/documents/01168ba15e051e7a318549cf
Another name for these shapes is Dual Geodesic Icosahedrons, which I only know because I found this excellent featurescript that someone wrote that does every polyhedron ever. (Or at least the ones on this website) It also lets you choose whether you want solids, surfaces, edges, or vertices as an output which is immensely useful.
The Propellor shapes are the most fun