how can I create a 3d texture onto a sphere in Solid Works? dots on a basketball

I need to create the dot texture on a basket ball, not as a texture map, I need to create the dots on the spherical surface of the basketball and I need the right way to do it in SolidWorks. Any advice / tutorial to achieve this?

2 Answers

Unless you're designing basketballs, I'd go with an inverted bump map in anti-normal mode and call it a day.