Design every panel.
A free browser-based 3D designer for any sewn ball — soccer balls, footbags, juggling balls. Paint each panel, convert any GLB model into panels, and export laser-ready sewing templates — sew exactly what you previewed.
It's a new tool built by footbag makers, so expect rough edges and the occasional broken thing. If something doesn't work or you have ideas, we'd genuinely love to hear — email us or DM @newyorkfootbags.
Every face is a panel.
Spin it, paint it, sew it.
Click to color.
Pick from 33 fabric colors — including the real Ultrasuede LX palette — and paint any panel by clicking it. Rotate and zoom the ball from every angle in real time.
Any 3D model becomes templates.
Start from real ball designs and classic polyhedra — soccer ball, baseball, Teamgeist, up to 162 panels — or convert your own GLB model into sewable panels. Every face becomes a paintable panel.
Templates ready to cut.
Export millimeter-true SVG sewing templates with stitch holes already spaced — print them, or send them straight to a laser cutter. Everything you need to sew a footbag, hacky sack, or soccer ball from scratch.
Three steps. One browser tab.
Pick a shape
Start from a classic soccer ball, a baseball, or a 162-panel Goldberg — or import your own GLB model. Every face becomes a panel.
Paint the panels
Click any panel in 3D to color it. Use the 33-fabric palette, paint all hexagons at once, or fill the unpainted ones with a chosen color.
Cut and sew
Export every panel as a millimeter-true sewing template with stitch holes in place — print it or laser-cut it — and save the design to your library.
A template for every ball.
From baseball to 162 panels.
Fourteen starting designs — soccer ball, footbag, and juggling-ball patterns, from real World Cup balls to classic polyhedra. These are starting points, not one-size downloads: open any of them in the designer and it generates a sewing template cut to your exact size, bite depth, and stitch-hole spacing.
Need something custom? Convert any GLB 3D model and every face becomes a paintable panel with its own sewing template — the same pipeline handles built-ins and imports.
Anyone sewing a sphere.
Soccer-ball designers
Recolor the classic 32-panel ball or invent your own panel layout, then export every panel as a sewing pattern.
Footbag stitchers
Design a 32-panel, 42-panel, or 92-panel footbag pattern in your team colors. Never redraw a cardboard footbag template again.
Juggling-ball makers
Match a 5-ball set in consistent panel layouts and palettes. Every design exports as a juggling ball sewing pattern with your custom weight, density, and panel count.
Hackerspace fab labs
Turn any design into a printable hacky sack pattern and run a workshop on the laser cutter you already own.
Free, MIT-licensed, self-hostable.
Paneler is built in public. Run it on paneler.app, pull the container into your own cluster, or fork the repo and bend it to whatever sphere you want to sew. Built on Next.js, three.js, and React Three Fiber.