In this tutorial you will learn to create 3D Ball in PowerPoint. You will not only find a step by step demonstration of how to create the graphic from scratch but also see some useful applications of the graphic in business presentations.
Let us first go to Auto shapes menu and select 'Oval' tool from 'Basic shapes'. Draw a circle while holding the 'Shift' tab. Change the fill color of the circle to a color of your choice and remove the outline.
Right click on this circle and go to 'Format shape' dialog box. Under '3D format' option choose the bevel preset called 'circle'. This is the only preset that will help you get a perfect 3D sphere. You need to apply the bevel to both 'Top' and 'Bottom' surfaces.
There is a simple calculation that helps you make a sphere using bevel preset. The calculation is -- for every inch of the diameter of the circle you need to add 36 pt to width and height of the bevel. For example, if your circle is 3 inches in diameter -- you need to add 108 pt to both width and height of 'circle bevel' preset. Apply the necessary width and height to create the sphere. When you add a nice shadow to the bottom of the sphere your diagram gets complete.
Why waste time creating your diagrams from scratch, when you have such a high quality solution available off the shelf?
