
LED light stake
myminifactory
This is a replacement stake I made for one that broke. It was designed and uploaded with www.selfcad.com #selfcad #sculp-with-selfcad #selfCADchallenge. I saw the new design competition to create a part with a tool called SelfCAD, so I thought I would give it a shot. I will say that even with my limited experience with CAD, it was pretty easy to use. I started my project by taking some measurements of the light pole that I needed to make a stake for. My next step was to figure out how to visualize the solution I wanted. From there I went to SelfCAD and started working. The first part I added was the easiest, I had the exact measurement from a piece of the old stake so I knew exactly how big a round it needed to be to fit into the light, 21 mm diameter. I created a cylinder at the origin with a 10.5 mm radius, and made it 30 mm high, which I also measured off the broken stake. I made some guesses on the rest of the stake as it was broken and lost in the ground. The next step was to add a cylinder 24 mm across and 3 mm tall, this is to simply keep the stake from going all of the way up into the light. Now for the meat of the project. Although I am not actually making cubes, the name of the tool in SelfCAD is called the cube tool, so I will continue to use that nomenclature, since I am explaining how I designed this in SelfCAD. I created two cubes, to create the main shaft of the stake. They were 24 mm x 3 mm x 100 mm. In retrospect, now that I have reinstalled the light, I could have gotten away with a shorter stake so make 50 mm - 75 mm would have been better here. The next two cubes I created were to make up the tip of the stake so that it will go into the ground easier. I used two 24 mm x 3 mm x 50 mm cubes, and then I used the taper tool to bring them to a point. The next step is to use the grouping tool to make all of these components a single 3D part. Since I am using this to actually install a light outside I want to do a couple of things to make the part stronger. In order to do this it is best to have a part like this oriented so that it lays horizontally and thus reducing the layer adhesion issue filament based printing tends to have. I mentioned earlier that I could have made the stake a little shorter. I mentioned this as I had to work harder than normal to get the stake into the ground, I could have stopped sooner if the stake had been shorter.
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