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Bird box in 3D
Draw a real bird box from one plank 150 mm wide: the floor and the back, sides cut to a slope, a front with a hole 25 mm across, and a roof tipped down 15°. Then make it for real.
For children from about 10, and anyone new to 3D. Nothing to download, no account.
- Lessons
- 4
- Time
- about 55 minutes
- Points to win
- 600
0 of 4 lessons passed
The lessons
New boards in yellow
- 1
Lesson 1, 10 minutes
The floor and the back
Start the bird box: a back, 150 wide and 380 high, and a floor in front of it, 150 × 150, from 15 mm board. Each one its own component.
- 2
Lesson 2, 15 minutes
Sides cut to a slope
Stand a side on the floor, 150 deep and 235 high, then cut its top to a slope, 40 lower at the front, so the roof sheds the rain. Copy it for the other side.
- 3
Lesson 3, 15 minutes
The front, with its hole
Put the front on: 150 wide, 205 high, 15 thick, with a hole 25 across, its middle 155 up. That size of hole is right for blue tits.
- 4
Lesson 4, 15 minutes
The roof, at 15°
Put the roof on: a board 200 × 150, 15 thick, tipped down 15° at the front so the rain runs off. It turns on its back edge, on the top of the sides, tight against the back.
Points and levels
100 points for each lesson you pass, and 50 more when it's right the first time you check.
- Starterfrom 0 points
- Builderfrom 200 points
- Makerfrom 400 points
The keys you'll use
Keys and axes
Tools
- RRectangle
- PPush/Pull
- LLine
- CCircle
- MMove
- QRotate
- SpaceSelect
- GMake Component (select the board first)
Axes: an arrow key locks the way you're drawing or moving
- →red axisleft and right: the width
- ←green axisfront and back: the depth
- ↑blue axisup and down: the height
- ShiftAlready moving along an axis? Hold Shift and it stays on it.
- CtrlWith Move: makes a copy (Option on a Mac)
- EscCancels what you're doing
Sizes: just type, they go in the Measurements box at the bottom right, then Enter. Two sizes: 1000,600 (1000;600 if your computer writes decimals with a comma).