This is a bird house designed to look like a traditional Swedish cottage with a small front porch.
You can decide if you want to print the house shell as one piece:
- gehaeuse_v2
or you can print the house shell in 3 parts:
- Floor: boden_v2
- Sidewall 1: fasssade_01
- Sidewall 2: fasssade_02_v2
There are also two mounting plates for the house available:
- montageleiste | for screw mounting (M6 or similar)
- montageleiste_2 | for zip tie, wire or string mounting
What you need:
- Patience ( My printing time was ~100h)
- Super Glue
- A drinking straw (5mm Outer Diameter) for the roof gutter
- A M6 Screw and nut or something similar to mount the birdhouse to the mounting braket
- 4 M4 Nuts and 4 Screws for the detachable roof
- I have also used black nail polish and painted the surface for the window and door opening black before i glued the parts to the house.
Additional notes:
- The standard birdhouse hole size is 30mm (einflugring_gewinde) and 45mm (einflugring). Please have a look here for different birdhouse hole sizes if you want to attract a specific bird.:
https://www.thespruce.com/bird-house-hole-sizes-386641
http://www.vogelhaus-nistkasten.de/nistkaesten/einflugloch-nistkasten/ (For german birds)
- Please make sure to add support, when you are printing the roof. The roof is the only part of the assembly that needs a little bit of support at the bottom of the print.
- If you have a woodpecker close by the chances are high, that he will like the sound of the birdhouse and will tear big holes in the walls. It happened to me already two times. I really don't have a solution for that. I printed the 3rd house now with almost 100% infill for the walls. I hope this will help.
UPDATE 1:
- There is a new assembly for the birdhouse hole. (SCREW: einflugring_gewinde and NUT: einflugring_mutter). You can easily change the hole size for a specific bird type e.g. with the Microsoft 3D Builder.
UPDATE 2:
- If someone does not want to have the water reservoir on the bird house I have added modified parts
- If someone wants to have a specific hole diameter, you can use the new file "einflugring_gewinde_without_hole.stl" and add the hole with your specific diameter e.g. with the free Microsoft 3D Builder Software
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