Simple Castle Hide for Small Pets

The other versions are there for me to view my progress as I learn design-- USE VERSION 5, THE ONE NAMED 5SimplePetCastleHide, it is the fixed and good version!!!

It's simple! It's cute! It fits on my print bed and will fit in the cage! It looks vaguely like part of a castle! I did it! I quite like this actually, looking forward to see how it prints. I've been providing my male with the boxes that tea bags come in- he likes them, but let's face it, this is cooler. Plus it will likely stay in place better when he climbs on it.

For the medieval minded mouse (or other appropriately sized creature), this offers a few different areas for exploration or hiding, with a turret room that has a small window for small noses, a roomy great hall room which can be stuffed with bedding with ample space for the obligatory food stash (rodents are always in preparation for a siege), and a platform stair up another turret to the battlements, where a very small friend could gaze out across their kingdom. Probably to tell their enemies that their mother was a hamster-- but in this case it's likely to be true so it's a pretty poor insult really.

Prints and edits--

Edit: began the print but was having some extruder issues so I stopped with only the very first layer of the bottom done, which was enough for me to see that it wasn't quite as large as I'd thought, and additionally, there was a small error in placement on one of the turrets. So I loaded 'er back up in Tinkercad and made some changes- am going to print version 2 and see how it goes.

Did a print of it but this filament is fighting me, still have major extrusion issues. Going to try again, but I did include one image to get a general idea. It needs some small tweaks but I like the design overall! Made the final edits to the file, making it slightly larger and rounding out the towers a bit. Trying another print at a higher temp to hopefully get better results because yikes on the extrustion in the last one.

I fixed the somewhat failed print the best I could with a 3Doodler Create pen and then decorated it a bit as well. Cleaned it up (sooooo much snipping bits off) and did a quick photo shoot with the delicate pink-eyed maiden Melisande, who found it quite good for hiding in. Currently re-printing with a later version of the file and different filament, hopefully better result!

12/2
Print of the 5 version a few hours from completion, and I'm THRILLED with it. Cleaned out the inside and ironed out some tiny details that were bugging me. Changed the number of platforms in the "stair" tower, as the mice don't care for lots of them. Hollowed out the inside more for more room and also more efficient use of filament, shaped things to look a little better and print a little nicer, changed the hole that connects the closed tower to the main room. Printing very nicely, the hide is exactly to plan, I love it, and the mice love climbing on it almost as much as stuffing it full of fluff and sleeping in it.

This thing was made with Tinkercad. Edit it online https://www.tinkercad.com/things/0vqrr7rp6yI