Sydney CBD
New South Wales, Australia
Six hundred metres of the Sydney central business district, taken from photogrammetry rather than mapped outlines — so the model keeps the roofline of every tower, the trees in the parks and the sweep of the harbour edge, at about 1:5,000.
- Ground covered
- 600 m
- Printed size
- 120 mm
- Scale
- 1:5,000
Surface captured from Google's photorealistic 3D tiles. Check Google Maps Platform terms before redistributing a printed derivative.
How this model is made
Capture
Photogrammetric tiles covering the area are read and reduced to the topmost surface over a grid, which discards the holes and loose fragments that make raw scans unprintable.
Solidify
The surface is closed into a watertight solid with a plinth and a raised rim, sharing boundary vertices so there are no seams for a slicer to complain about.
Download the STL and slice it. No supports needed: overhangs are removed by construction, and anything too fine for a nozzle is dropped rather than printed badly.