Positioning Candles on a birthday cake is a surveying dilemma as a GPS will not work inside Wendell's home. A total station could be set up in the living room. but with that creamy sponge birthday cake and a huge "WH HB from RADU" scribed in flowing colured strawberry red cream. Sadly there is little chance of carrying out a least squares adjustment with surveyor Kent's prized least square program to determine the spacial setting offset for those plump, delectably ripe, rosy red strawberries signifying the birthday boy's age........
RADU
RADU, post: 430363, member: 222 wrote: Positioning Candles on a birthday cake is a surveying dilemma as a GPS will not work inside Wendell's home.
Before you go through all that trouble I would be sure I obtained a "burning permit" prior to igniting the candles. 😉
Run a Least squares pre-analysis and plot a scale map as a template.
Is the number of candles a prime number? Is the cake round or square? And don't forget aliquot parts.
I could stake it all, + - 0.05', with my Javad. And, he done in time for free Barb-Q lunch, even in those woods..... and woolly swamp lands!
Happy Birfday, Wendell!
N
Happy Day!
A Pin Farm is OK.
Wait till you have to put 70 candles on your wife's cake. Order, what order?
Paul in Pa
Scan the cake. Then import the data to CAD. Compute the best fit of a circle to find the weighted centerpoint of the cake. Then lineout an array of candles and stake them reflectorless with the robot and the laser and stick thr candle in where the laser points.
A some point you just go blanket easement and put them everywhere.
ONE always works, it IS your/his/her first (and only) birthday THIS year.
Hey Wendell, I guess we share the Same Birthday. Very rarely do we get off for Observed Memorial Day.
If it is truly your Birthday, you also share it with MY Twin Sister (she is 8 minutes older than me).
Happy B-Day to All!
This is a fun thread.
Everyone always puts the candles on top of the cake.
Be different and stick them in the sides. Radial if a round cake. That way you can set up in the middle of the cake and lay them out evenly.
Brad Ott, post: 430450, member: 197 wrote: This is a fun thread.
Yea, but Happy (belated) Birthday to you and Wendell. Hope y'all see 100 more! 😎
RADU, post: 430363, member: 222 wrote: Positioning Candles on a birthday cake is a surveying dilemma as a GPS will not work inside Wendell's home. A total station could be set up in the living room. but with that creamy sponge birthday cake and a huge "WH HB from RADU" scribed in flowing colured strawberry red cream. Sadly there is little chance of carrying out a least squares adjustment with surveyor Kent's prized least square program to determine the spacial setting offset for those plump, delectably ripe, rosy red strawberries signifying the birthday boy's age........
RADU
Easily solvable situation. Determine the dimensions of the cake, calc the layout of the candles, draw the locations in CAD at a scale of 1:1, plot the layout and build a template like you would for anchor bolt patterns. You must first determine the dimensions of the plate upon which the cake will fit and then determine the vertical separation between the surface upon which the serving platter sits to the top of those creamy icing decorations to craft supporting legs capable of providing the appropriate vertical separation between the surface and the bottom of the plate. Laser scanning might speed this process. Drill holes through the candle locations and one in the centerline by centerline to mount a laser plummet on the template in place, center it and proceed to install the candles through their designated holes. I would recommend that the holes be drilled to reflect the desired tolerance for candle placement to that when you remove the template the candles remain if they were not set perfectlt plumb.
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hahaha you guys are funneh 😀 But thank you!
Personally, I think we should just light the damn cake on fire, since that's what's going to happen regardless of how the candles are set.
Also, nobody mentioned doing a radial stakeout with 5' offsets...
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Wendell, post: 430532, member: 1 wrote: hahaha you guys are funneh 😀 But thank you!
Personally, I think we should just light the damn cake on fire, since that's what's going to happen regardless of how the candles are set.
Also, nobody mentioned doing a radial stakeout with 5' offsets...
Well Wendell staking offsets is really showing your age ! LOL!
Dave Lindell, post: 430456, member: 55 wrote: Everyone always puts the candles on top of the cake.
Be different and stick them in the sides. Radial if a round cake. That way you can set up in the middle of the cake and lay them out evenly.
Well Dave By the time that said cake would arrive from DU I suggest that the candles would be upside down after crossing the equator.....
Nate The Surveyor, post: 430375, member: 291 wrote: I could stake it all, + - 0.05', with my Javad. And, he done in time for free Barb-Q lunch, even in those woods..... and woolly swamp lands!
Happy Birfday, Wendell!
N
But half the candles around the edge would fall on the plate....do you fudge them to where you think they should be?
Happy B-Day!
Well, it'd be due to excessive candle count!