Supportless Sphere Puzzle V2

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This is version two of my original supportless sphere puzzle. It has five sides rather than four. The new angled edges make for better supportless puzzle remixes that I am working on. I designed this to create various spherical items with textures all over it's sides, but to be able to print them without supports. I created it based on the concepts of wood joinery, with Japanese wood joinery as an inspiration. Since it is broken into components it actually is kind of puzzle like. Example in the pictures was printed at 0.2 mm. The default files and the example in the pictures have the sphere at 62.5 mm in diameter, small but slightly larger than V1 by default. The tolerances between parts is a little over 0.1 mm currently. I printed the example picture at 0.2 mm line height. In theory, this can be scaled up and should work just fine at larger sizes. Actually when incereasing size the tolerance between pieces will become slightly less tight as it scales. In fact, I plan on scaling it up for most of my projects in the future.