You've likely seen them at some point - airless 3D printed balls (basketball, football, tennis ball).  They are pretty simple to create using free software like Blender or Fusion 360, and yet when it comes to the expensive, "professional", pay-per-year software, things are neither free, intuitive nor easy.  

When doing an online search for tutorials, I can only find a Solidworks Live video for how to make an airless ball - however; they are not using Solidworks.  No, they're using some new cloud-based "X-modeling" tool.  Sorry, but I didn't search for a Solidworks tutorial to see some cloud-based, not Solidworks tool.  Nor am I trying to switch to said cloud-based tool and re-learn my workflow from scratch or dozens of new overly-complicated features and design trees.  It also speaks very poorly of Solidworks as a Software, when not even Solidworks the company wants to use Solidworks 2024 or 2025 to create these types of tutorial videos for "Solidworks Live".  I want a tutorial that is for Native Solidworks 2024/2025 on my PC.

Creating the hollow sphere?  Easy.  Making a hexagon cut?  Easy.  From there?  

No you can't create a simple circular pattern of your cut as the sphere has different diameters moving away from center.  Sure, you could make multiple circular patterns, but that's tedious and shouldn't be necessary.  No you can't fill Pattern it, because that doesn't work on sphere surfaces.  No you cannot project curve as it will warp/distort your lines and only apply to one side of your model.  No you cannot use wrap, as this again doesn't work on spherical surfaces.  No, there is no 3D-Texture for a cut hexagon pattern to apply said pattern evenly over our spherical surface (nor does the 3D texture tool apply any texture evenly over the sphere I've made).  And No there is No video on Youtube from Solidworks showing you how to do this in Solidworks (not some cloud based Solidworks-esque, 10x more complicated tool than Blender).  Nor is there a tutorial I can find anywhere for Solidworks that teaches this operation.  And no - I'm not trying to learn Blender from scratch just to make a stupid ball to throw for my dog (although more and more I'm leaning towards learning Blender due to the growing numer of shortcomings with Solidworks).  

So all you Solidworks Pros and Experts - how do you use Native Solidworks to create what is a simple, repeated cut pattern, on a sphere?