'Bad Smirk' Ball Joint for figurines [WIP]

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Just started on this project tonight, I know there's already an official compatible good smile ball joint available on here, but the project aim is to create a similar mechanism to what's seen in those good smile dolls/nendoroid but to make one that's not an exact copy and with efforts to make it more durable for bring 3d printed, I didn't bother measuring the good smile joint as the point's to pull away from their design more and moving forward I'd like to make some more minor changes things such as using more octogon-like cylinders if it could lock the joint in place better. Basically a 3d printable joint that could be used to quickly draw up figurines in meshmixer, I also have a test doll made up if the mechanism checks out and if that goes well I'll post that at a later time. THIS IS A CRUDE PROTOTYPE PRINT AT OWN EXPENSE. I'm using meshmixer just as it was a spur of the moment project so pardon the large filesize lol. I might make more drastic changes as I'd like to pull away from the goodsmile design but I really like what it has to offer in posability and design. My idea when I go to print it is going to be in PETG might try a .04 nozzle basically I want it to be as few layers as possible while also having the most detail so I think a .04 nozzle at a standard quality might do the trick maybe a lil higher if I can do so with out sacrificing 'roundness'