birdhouse

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The opening is 4cm, it took me approximately twenty-four hours (24h) to print and around five hundred grams of material were used (two walls at a .8mm nozzle and seventeen percent infill). You'll need a two-hundred-millimeter by two-hundred-millimeter print bed. I designed this project to be printed without any supports, but some parts are particularly tricky. If you're not as cautious as me, you should probably support the left and right holder-parts. It did work out for me with a .05 layer-height, lots of fan, and thirty millimeters per second speed. The bridges also require attention (the entrance-part as well as the roof): full fan and slowed speed worked for me. The brace is to be printed in vase-mode, but you don't really need it if you're willing to use glue. I've now tried both arm-versions and I find the first one far more easier to assemble at the tree and it seems more stable. Version 2 should have allowed better leveling of the house (no fixed positions as in v.1) but the house kept tilting before I could secure the screws.. Finally, the outer half ring of the handle snapped :( .