Wire Stake

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I have a perimeter fence made entirely out of wire around the yard, and the bulk pack stakes that came with it are generally okay most of the time, but in certain places they tend to pull right out of loose sandy soil. Bigger stakes come for $15 per pack of 50, and they're better, but still inadequate in some areas. Today, I needed three more big stakes, so I decided to print them instead of buying another pack. The .gx file has the stake scaled up to 150mm long, which provides a good wall thickness. If you want to vary the stake size significantly from 6", you might need to go into the .blend file and adjust the body's thickness to meet your needs. Print Settings Printer: Flashforge Dreamer Rafts: No Supports: No Resolution: .30 Infill: N/A Notes: I've been printing these on high-speed, low-quality defaults (ABS at 235C, table at 105C), and I'm pleased with the results. I've printed about twenty of these now, including multiple prints up to six at a time. It's probably the easiest printing design I've ever tried to print, maybe in large part because I'm printing them low quality, high thickness, high temperature ABS. One print takes around 25 minutes, after preheating, and I printed six at once and they took right around 150 minutes - no time savings, but you can get six at a time without fooling with the machine. Post-Printing Hammer Carefully The head could be a bit thicker if you really need to hammer the part hard into the ground, I haven't had any breakage, but I did see the ABS discolor from black to white after a couple of hard hammer blows. Still, in my soil, I was able to hammer these all the way down under the ground surface without any breakage. How I Designed This Extruded Poly-Lines Blender takes a bit of getting used to, but if you rotate properly, you can make parts like this without mesh, just a collection of extruded closed polyline shapes.