Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point, New South Wales
The shells at Bennelong Point with the harbour on three sides. A photogrammetric capture handles the sails far better than a footprint ever could — they are curved surfaces, not extruded outlines.
- Ground covered
- 500 m
- Printed size
- 120 mm
- Scale
- 1:4,167
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.