Build a birdhouse

A cube, a roof, a perch, and a real round doorway cut with Draw a shape.

Comfortable — Know your way around the tools 4 steps

Video coming soon — the written walkthrough below is the whole build.

Written walkthrough

The birdhouse is the Detailing branch’s graduation: it needs a hole in the middle of a wall, and that’s exactly what Draw a shape is for.

1. Stack the house and roof

A Cube on open floor, a Pyramid stamped on its top. Two pieces, ten seconds.

2. Cut the doorway

Switch to Grow, flip the card to Draw a shape, and tap the front face. Trace a doorway on the dot grid (a little octagon reads beautifully as a round bird door) and close the loop. Choose In, raise the Depth, and watch the button: at full depth it reads Cut through. Press it and the doorway opens right into the house: a real hole, dark inside, exactly the shape you drew.

3. Grow a perch

Flip back to This face, tap one of the small faces just under the doorway (the cut fragmented the wall, so small faces are right there), and press Out for a stubby perch for small feet.

4. Woody browns

Fill it in warm browns, roof darker than walls. Or dress the roof in a shingle pattern and paint a name over the door.

Who lives here? Shape the door for them. A big round door says owl; a tiny one says wren; a square one says a very orderly robot bird.

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