3D print the Alphabetic Tower
A free, printable model of the tower, with its steel lattice shaft, two spiral bands of letters and round sphere on top, and the surrounding buildings, roads and shoreline, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Alphabetic Tower in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- Real height
- 130 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 35 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
130 m of the Alphabetic Tower, 35 mm on your shelf
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.
- Spiral bands and open lattice
A thin lattice shaft carries two spiral bands with small raised letters. Print friendly adapts these thin parts and letters to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print.
- Sphere on the crown
The ball on top has a fine triangular framework. A layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm and a bigger print size keep it crisp, and printing slowly helps the tall, thin lattice.
- One piece with the ground
The Alphabetic Tower 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. The Alphabetic Tower 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 the Alphabetic Tower
The Alphabetic Tower is a 130-meter structure in Batumi, Georgia. It is meant to symbolize how unique the Georgian alphabet and its people are. The design borrows the double helix of DNA: two spiral bands climb the tower, carrying 33 letters from the Georgian alphabet, and every letter is 4 meters tall and made of aluminum. An exposed elevator shaft in the middle leads to the crown, where a colossal silver ball sits.
Alberto Domingo Cabo and Carlos Lázaro, of CMD Domingo y Lázaro Ingenieros, a company from Spain, built it. Construction began on October 10, 2010, the exterior was completed in December 2011, and the cost was $65 million. Eleven modules of cantilever steel-tube trusses form two bodies: an inner one holding the communication core, stairs and panoramic elevators, and an outer one that supports the structure and carries the big characters. A glass sphere made of triangular elements crowns it.
The sphere holds several floors. A TV studio and kitchen are on the second, and the restaurant on the third is a revolving ring that turns 360 degrees in an hour, with views across the city and the Black Sea. The fourth floor is an observatory deck, and the fifth lets visitors see the tuned mass damper, a fifty-ton device that reduces vibrations.
About this model
The Alphabetic Tower is one of more than 4,900 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.
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