3D print Amiens Cathedral
A free, printable model of the cathedral's twin towers, central spire and flying buttresses, with the dense buildings, park areas and waterways around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Amiens Cathedral
Amiens Cathedral, known in French as the Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens, is where the Bishop of Amiens has his seat. It stands on a slight ridge above the River Somme, about 120 km (75 miles) north of Paris. Nearly all of it went up between 1220 and about 1270, an unusually short span for a Gothic cathedral, which gives it a rare unity of style. Amiens counts as early High Gothic, and it shows the Rayonnant style.
The builders wanted the largest possible interior, to reach for the heavens and let in more light. The result is a building of 200,000 cubic meters (260,000 cu yd), the greatest volume of any cathedral in France and more than twice that of Notre Dame of Paris. Although much of its original stained glass is gone, the cathedral is renowned for early 13th-century Gothic sculpture on its main west front and at the portal of the south transept.
In 1218, a fire destroyed the Romanesque cathedral. Master builder Robert de Luzarches made the plan for the new one, and the first stone was laid in 1220 by Bishop Evrard de Fouilloy. Unusually, building proceeded from west to east, starting with the nave. In 1498, Pierre Tarisel fastened a wrought iron chain around the structure to hold the stone columns in. He installed it red hot so that it tightened as it cooled, and the chain remains in place. Since 1981 it has had UNESCO World Heritage Site status.
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 | 31 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 39 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 49 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Needle-thin central spire
- The tall central spire ends in a very thin tip. Print friendly adapts it to your print scale; Full detail keeps it, so print larger, slowly, and with layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm for a crisp point.
- Flying buttresses and pinnacles
- Slim flying buttresses arch along the nave and choir, with rows of small pinnacles beside them. A larger print keeps more of them, and Print friendly adapts the thinnest parts to your print scale.
- One piece with the ground
- Amiens Cathedral 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. Amiens Cathedral 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
Amiens Cathedral 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 an Amiens Cathedral 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. Amiens Cathedral grows with the print: about 31 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.
