Thanks for your quick reply . I have decided I will need to create a geodesic sphere. With your toolkit, is it possible then to use a custom mesh (such as a geodesic polyhedra) and use that to project a grid on to?
I assume you could create the polyhedra mesh and use that as a base for the grid and bring in each hexagon/pentagon cell one by one and manual index them, but is there a way to generate it all in one?