SWEDISH BIRD HOUSE

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:

1. Floor: boden_v2
2. Sidewall 1: fasssade_01
3. Sidewall 2: fasssade_02_v2 

There are also two mounting plates for the house available:

1. montageleiste | for screw mounting (M6 or similar)
2. 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 M5 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 birds that are typical for germany)

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 twice. 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. 

You can change the hole size for a specific bird type e.g. with the Microsoft 3D Builder. And if you like you can also add them as a remix.

UPDATE 1:

There is a new assembly for the birdhouse hole: 

• SCREW: einflugring_gewinde and 
• NUT: einflugring_mutter. 

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

Print Settings

Printer:

Hypercube

Rafts: 

No

Supports:

Yes

Resolution: 

0,2mm

Infill:

>25%

 Notes: 

My Bird house was printed with the following Materials:

1. Das Filament PETG - Ruby Red
2. Das Filament PETG - Black
3. Das Filament PETG - White

Category: Outdoor & Garden