User:Slashme/Wikisphere

Creating the shell

• Add mesh - UV sphere
  • Set segments to 64
  • Set rings to 32
• Duplicate and scale by 0.95
• Turn sphere into shell:
  • Select outer sphere
  • add modifier - Boolean - difference - choose smaller sphere as second object.
  • Apply modifier
  • Delete smaller sphere

Test cutting sphere

Make half-shell

• Add plane, scale 2×
• Select sphere
• Add modifier - Boolean - intersect - choose plane as second object
• Apply modifier
• Delete plane

Make trivial puzzle-piece with 90° cut faces

• Add cone
• Move cone origin to sphere centre
• Add Boolean modifier to cone: intersect - choose sphere shell as second object
• Apply modifier
• Move resulting object away from sphere

Note: changing vertices of cone would yield any shape of puzzle piece.

Note: Will have to shade edges of puzzle pieces flat, rest as smooth.