Bird feeder - Free draining - Updated Aug 2021

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This is a remix from 16/08/2021. The info below was true, but the new one also flooded. This remix needs to be printed in Prusa Slicer, as Cura can't make sense of it, sadly. The base is now thicker and slopes upwards towards the seed dispenser to give an 8mm head to it (why didn't I think of that earlier??) The modifier now imposes 45% Octogram Spiral on the base that needs to be free-draining. ================= Thing 4441076 was for a wine bottle. This is modified for a 2 litre pop bottle.Although the original was very elegant and effective, when it rained, it flooded and the seed got stuck in the bottle. So I redesigned it using Blender and Prusa slicer. I was able to put a modifier in the base of the feeder that removed the outer perimeters, and upped the % of 3d honeycomb infill. As a result, if will freely drain the full flow of my cold tap. This remix has a larger version of the top, with the standard pentagon built in to match the pentagonal indents found on pop bottle bases, and the device can be hung now in the same way as the wine bottle version. I hope you like it. The .AMF file loads happily into prusa slicer with all the present positions and settings. When I tried loading it into Cura, all the parts sit on top of each other, and I don't know how to correct it or make it print. So some advice about this would be helpful. My inclination is to recommend using Prusa Slicer for this thing, as this file loads simply and effectively, without modifications. Do let me know if this loads and prints well for you.