 Hey guys, Vladimir here with Desktop Makes. Now every year I do a Christmas theme design and 3D print. And usually true to my nature, they're always last minute. Now this year, instead of designing an ornament, I'm going with a holiday card. Not just any old boring holiday card. This is a snap apart and build your own gingerbread house kit that comes in the form of a holiday card. So I've got a few here in different colors that I'm playing around with. And actually one in the Prusa Mini right now printing. So yeah, small enough you can fit it on the Prusa Mini. And in fact, I made sure it was small enough where you can actually fit it in an envelope. So this right here is a regular card envelope that you would get for like a birthday card and here it fits right in there and you can just, there you go. So yeah, 5x7 is the dimension I went with. So yeah, the idea was inspired by Thingiverse user Nakazin. And I'll leave the link below to his page where you can check out his amazing 3D printed card kits and maybe even be inspired to design your own like I was. Okay, so here's the built model in Fusion 360. I took this model and created a flat pack version of it where you can print it and give it to friends and family. And that's just where the fun begins because after receiving it, they can snap apart the pieces and have fun building their own gingerbread house kit. You can see here I've printed a few already that I'm just having fun kind of playing with different colors and other schemes here and I've uploaded the STL files to Prusa printers and to Thingiverse. The links for those are below. It's my Christmas gift to you, so Merry Christmas and feel free to re-gift it. I've uploaded two versions where I only changed the text on the top here. So one of them says Merry Christmas and the other one says Happy Holidays. If you don't want to do filament change, another option is to just 3D print it in one color and then you can paint it. You can even use like a marker or a sharpie to give it the look that you want. There are a lot of really valuable Fusion 360 techniques that I use to create this model and I'll be creating separate videos to go through those. It would just take way too long. I mean I'd probably be looking at like a two-hour video if I try to cover everything in one video. I'll also be making the Fusion 360 design file to my Patreon supporters. So see the link below to see how to become a supporter of my channel. Okay so for this video I simply want to build this with you. I know a little different than my other videos but like I said I'll save the design tutorials for future videos. Okay so first we need to cut apart the different sections here and you can just use little snips to break them apart. And so okay let me decide which one I want to build with you and let me bring the camera angle in so you can see this close up. Okay I'm going to go ahead and cut this one out just using a pair of snips here and then we'll assemble it. So these actually will just pop right out and I'm just going to get them free for now and then I'll go ahead and come back and clean them up. You want to be careful here you want to actually cut them because I did try to see if you can just kind of snap them and the problem with that is that these... I made them so thin just enough to hold it together that they'll behave as like a thread if you pull one and then just try to pull it apart it may just end up like pulling the filament like a thread and kind of unravel it. So okay then you're left with this, got all the pieces and then what I'm just going to do is I'm going to go back and just clean all these up. Okay so I'm just going to come back in and cut these flush you want them to be flush otherwise it's going to interfere with the build here and we go to snap them together. This is where good pair of snips really comes in handy. You might notice that this has actually a different color on the back than in the front. The reason for that is I just simply ran out of filament this color and I had to swap out a different filament a few layers left to complete the top so that's the only reason that you're seeing a different color in the front versus the back. Okay now I got these all cut. We can go ahead and assemble them. So I'm just clear this out the way. Okay I built a few of these and I kind of have a method here that works. So I like to start with the back wall here because you've got that long chimney and then you want to grab the roof that has an extra long slot and that's the one that's going to go on the chimney here and you can see here that the chimney is actually beveled there which is really nice because what happens is so if we go ahead and just push these in when you put the other chimney with that beveled they're all going to meet at a nice edge here so if we bring this other chimney here that should just snap actually you want to make sure that the beveled edge on that is facing up and then we're going to snap that into the little tab here. Go ahead and snap that in. Now they're not Legos here you're not going to get that really satisfying snap but it will be enough to hold them in place there and there's not that much material to work with we're only working with like that's two millimeters there of thickness. So yeah so you get the back end there that chimney will hold that really nice into place and you can see this you know it holds pretty well so you shouldn't really need glue hopefully not I mean I know designing something like this is going to be you know different with every printer every printer has you know slightly different tolerances and I designed this at 0.2 millimeter clearance so let's go ahead and get this front wall on here now and sometimes you do get actually that nice satisfying snap right in there and then so there we go I've got the front and the back wall now the way I did that the clearance there is after I designed it I went back and did an offset to each of these sides all the tabs that are well where the tabs go into sort of the inner void there at first I tried 0.15 on each side but that was too loose and I'll show you an example of that so this was one where that was at 0.015 which meant you know combine it you're looking at a 0.3 millimeter clearance and you can see there the problem with that is that was just too loose and this just pops right out it doesn't hold it in so then instead of 0.15 I did a 0.1 offset and then that gave me a total of 0.2 millimeter clearance and that seemed to work well and I've tried it on a couple printers here and it works well so okay I'm going to line this wall up here now and I'm going to go ahead and snap that in and that holds like that and let's go ahead and do the other wall here and so you know you may have to play with it a little bit but once it does get in there you know it should hold nicely and then we'll go ahead and get the bottom plates in so foundation here go ahead and line that up and there we go so very satisfying once it comes together you can see there the front the side the back the side then it should hold pretty nicely I mean you know if you're getting your if yours is too loose or coming apart a little dab of crazy glue here and there should work but I've done a few of these in different printers and look I can like do this and it doesn't fall apart so still pretty sturdy pretty happy with the way it came out and then we can build a little village here so you can see all the ones I started making here and yeah I've got my little gingerbread town going but I need to stop building them so I can give them as gifts and that's how you build these so I forgot to mention this one actually did in woodfill so it's wood PLA wood fibers and PLA this is sort of it's one of the more lighter colors I've seen for woodfill but pretty nice so yeah got my village going I'm gonna be cranking these out today and tomorrow so you can see the printer is still going it'll be running all day and I hope you like my Christmas gift so have fun printing your own the files these are below where you can get the STL files to print them and if you want to play around with the fusion file those are making available to my Patreon supporters so if you want to support the channel I have a link down below where you can support the channel and get the fusion files as well alright guys I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas stay safe and have fun and I'll see you soon