3D print Arizona Charlie's Decatur
A free, printable model of Arizona Charlie's Decatur, a tall hotel block with arched windows beside low casino wings, among streets and low houses, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Arizona Charlie's Decatur
Arizona Charlie's Decatur is a casino hotel for locals in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ernest Becker III and his relatives built a shopping center, Charleston Heights, along Decatur Boulevard in the 1960s. It had a bowling alley with 36 lanes, Charleston Heights Bowl, which opened in 1963. In the 1970s a son, Bruce Becker, began managing the bowling alley, and in the 1980s he suggested attaching a hotel-casino to it. The casino is named for Arizona Charlie (1860–1932), a distant relative of the Beckers who performed alongside Buffalo Bill in western shows.
Construction began in July 1987 and cost $18 million. It opened in April 1988 as a Western-themed property, its hotel having three stories and 100 rooms. Area residents had protested, arguing that it would bring more crime and traffic. In 1991 the Las Vegas City Council approved a hotel expansion of three six-story towers, but it would have meant closing Evergreen Avenue, and residents opposed that. In 1993 the plan was cut to a single seven-story tower. The bowling alley was removed, gaming carried on inside a temporary tent holding 375 slot machines, and the $38 million expansion opened in 1994.
The operating company, Arizona Charlie's Inc., went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1997, having put money into a riverboat casino project in Missouri that failed. Businessman Carl Icahn bought the property the next year and owned it for a decade, and Golden Entertainment acquired it in 2017. Its sister property, Arizona Charlie's Boulder, was called Arizona Charlie's East when it opened in 2000. The first property took the name Arizona Charlie's West and, in 2003, Arizona Charlie's Decatur.
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 | 9 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 11 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 14 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Arched windows on the hotel front
- Rows of arched windows and a central pediment mark the hotel front. Print friendly adapts these fine details to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- Small rooftop details
- Many small boxes and vents sit on the low casino roofs. A bigger print size keeps more of them, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep their edges clean.
- One piece with the ground
- Arizona Charlie's Decatur 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. Arizona Charlie's Decatur 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
Arizona Charlie's Decatur 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 Arizona Charlie's Decatur 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. Arizona Charlie's Decatur grows with the print: about 9 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.
