3D print 10 East 40th Street
A free, printable model of 10 East 40th Street, a tall tower with a pyramid-shaped roof, and the dense Midtown skyscrapers around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About 10 East 40th Street
The Mercantile Building, also known as 10 East 40th Street, rises on 40th Street in Manhattan's Midtown. Its lot sits between Fifth and Madison Avenues, halfway along the block, and the building stretches south to 39th Street. Ludlow and Peabody designed it and Jesse H. Jones built it. It was finished in 1929 as an example of Renaissance Revival architecture, and upon completion it ranked fourth among the tallest towers worldwide. It has 48 floors, is 632 feet (193 m) high, and holds roughly 33,000 m2 (350,000 sq ft) of offices or mixed-use space.
It once went by the name Chase Tower, taken from its first tenant, Chase Brass & Copper. Frederick William Vanderbilt owned it until his death in 1938. In the 1970s part of the Mid-Manhattan Library was housed inside, and a lobby renovation in September 2002 restored ceilings of 15 feet (4.6 m).
It also has a place in the history of electricity. On November 14, 2007, it became the last site disconnected from the original direct current grid of Thomas Edison in New York City. When the building was completed in 1929, direct current supplied 90 percent of lower Manhattan's electricity, and the last two rotary converter substations producing it were retired in 1977. After 2007 the building itself, through a local converter, took over the conversion from Con Edison.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 51 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 63 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 81 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Pyramid roof and arched crown
- A pyramid-shaped roof sits above a crown of arched windows. Print friendly adapts these small details to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on larger prints.
- Tall, narrow shaft
- The tower is slim for its height, with vertical lines along its sides. Print slowly with good cooling, and use a layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm to keep the lines crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- 10 East 40th Street is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. 10 East 40th Street takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
10 East 40th Street is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a 10 East 40th Street STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. 10 East 40th Street grows with the print: about 51 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
