Wire Stake 2.0 by MangoCats

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

Moving from Blender to OpenSCAD as a design tool. Scaling the stake in OpenSCAD is much better since you have direct control over each dimension - for my printer, setting the thickness to 1.9mm was ideal (avoiding tiny gaps of hex-fill), in Blender I didn't have a good way to scale the thickness and other stake dimensions independently.
Most of the original Wire Stakes (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1777967) worked fine, but occasionally one would crack when being hammered into a tree root - this iteration puts a little thickening in the areas that were breaking first in the older design.
In my soil, the 150mm stakes are usually long enough, but when the sand is really soft and dry, longer is better. 240mm is about as long as I can fit on my print bed (it has to be turned at an angle.) The 150mm stake takes about 3.2m of filament to print, or ~$0.20 worth, $10 for a box of 50, if you don't count your machine time.