3D print 30 Hudson Yards
A free, printable model of 30 Hudson Yards, a tall tower with a slanted top and a deck jutting out near the summit, among the neighboring skyscrapers, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About 30 Hudson Yards
A supertall commercial skyscraper, 30 Hudson Yards rises on Midtown Manhattan's West Side in New York City and was known as the North Tower during construction. The neighborhoods of Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea and the Penn Station district are nearby. The tower belongs to the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, which reworks the West Side Yard of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Kohn Pedersen Fox designed it, with Thornton Tomasetti as lead structural engineer. Plans first called for 408 m (1,337 ft), but the height was reduced to 390 m (1,270 ft).
Early construction work began after a groundbreaking ceremony on December 4, 2012. It centered on a platform covering much of the Eastern Rail Yard, which also gives the Gateway Rail Tunnel project an unobstructed route underground. The platform rests on caissons drilled into solid bedrock known as Manhattan schist. The tower opened on March 15, 2019.
The Edge, a triangular observation deck, projects from the 100th floor, and the 101st floor holds a bar and an event space. The deck sits at 1,100 feet and opened in March 2020. Its outdoor terrace is cantilevered 24 m (80 ft) to the south, and a glass floor triangle of 20.9 m² (225 sq ft) looks down 345 m (1,131 ft) to the street. Reviewers have compared the shape of the building to a duck because of the protruding deck. In the lobby, Spanish artist Jaume Plensa hung 11 stainless steel spheres from the ceiling.
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 | 108 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 135 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 173 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slanted top and thin deck
- A slim deck projects from the slanted top of the tower. Print friendly adapts thin overhangs like this to your print scale; Full detail keeps it, best on a larger print with 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- A tall, slim tower
- The tower is tall and narrow beside its neighbors. Printing slowly, with good cooling, helps the upper floors and the top hold their shape.
- One piece with the ground
- 30 Hudson Yards 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. 30 Hudson Yards 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
30 Hudson Yards 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 30 Hudson Yards 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. 30 Hudson Yards grows with the print: about 108 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.
