3D print Antwerp Cathedral
A free, printable model of Antwerp Cathedral, with its single tall openwork spire, among the dense, steep-roofed buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Antwerp Cathedral
Antwerp Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Our Lady, is a Roman Catholic cathedral standing in the Belgian city of Antwerp, and its Dutch name is Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal. Work started in 1352; the first stage came to an end in 1521, but the building has never been fully finished. Jan and Pieter Appelmans were the architects of the Gothic design. No other Gothic church in Belgium is larger, and its tower is 123 meters (404 ft) tall.
In 1352 a fresh church for Our Lady was begun, planned with two towers of equal height. After nearly 170 years it was ready, in 1521. A fire on the night of October 5–6, 1533, took 57 altars with it, and the second tower, delayed by the fire, was ultimately abandoned. The church was named cathedral for the Antwerp bishopric in 1559, lost that title in 1801, and regained it in 1961. A complete restoration took place between 1965 and 1993.
Within the Benelux, no church tower is taller than its single finished spire, which stands 123 meters (404 ft) high. Charles V commented that it belonged under glass, while Napoleon likened it to Mechlin lace. The cathedral holds major works by Peter Paul Rubens, among them The Raising of the Cross and The Descent from the Cross. Its carillon has 49 bells; the largest, Karolus, was cast in 1507, and its weight is 6,434 kilograms (14,185 lb).
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 | 33 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 41 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 53 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- An openwork spire
- The tall spire is built from open, lace-like tracery. Print slowly with good cooling; Print friendly adapts the thinnest bars, while Full detail keeps them on a larger print with 0.12–0.16 mm layers.
- Many small gables and pinnacles
- Small gables and pinnacles line the nave and the rounded east end. A bigger print size keeps them readable, and Full detail keeps every one.
- 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. Antwerp 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
Antwerp 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 Antwerp 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. Antwerp Cathedral grows with the print: about 33 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.
