LED Strip clip for pipes or poles (parametric)

This is a fixture clip for easy and quick mounting of an LED strip to a pipe, like a camping pavillion. This also allows for easy removal of the strip before teardown without having to fiddle around with cutting tape off of a pole.

It's fully parameterized, so you can make it to fit exactly.

Usually one clip every 30-50cm is enough to firmly hold a LED strip in place, also when hanging on the underside of a horizontal pipe. The strip is supposed to go into the gap between the pipe and the clip.

Depending on the precision of your printer and your measurements of the pipe the clips shall hold on to, you may need to reduce the pipe_diameter parameter slightly to make the clip cling securely.

Print Settings

• Rafts: No
• Supports: No
• recommended color: transparent, colorless
• Filament material: PET-G, ABS, ASA
• 5 perimeters/walls, which makes it essentially solid, but mechanical strength is better than with fewer walls and solid infill.
  • As a result, infill settings become irrelevant

Notes:

Print laying on the side to give the clip the best strength when printing on an FDM/FFF printer. I haven't tested this one on a resin printer yet, but should work just as fine.

Ideally you choose the clip_width parameter smaller than the distance in between the LEDs on your strip. That way the clips won't occlude any LEDs. When using a very dense strip, where the clips cannot fit in between anymore, you can also use transparent filament to make them less visible.

When rendering a custom size from OpenSCAD, rendering can be quite slow due to excessive use of the minkowski() function, which is hugely expensive. Please be patient, the resulting rendered file will be excellent quality.