3D print Barclays Center
A free, printable model of Barclays Center and the tall tower beside it, with the dense blocks and streets around them, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Barclays Center
Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York City, is an indoor multi-purpose arena. It forms part of the Pacific Park development along Atlantic Avenue and adjoins the subway station named Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center, right on top of the LIRR's Atlantic Terminal. The Brooklyn Nets of the NBA and the New York Liberty of the WNBA call it home. Beyond basketball, it hosts concerts, conventions and a range of other sports and entertainment events.
Developer Bruce Ratner proposed the arena in 2004, the year he paid $300 million for the Nets, as a first step toward a new home for the team. The project drew strong community resistance over eminent domain, its possible environmental impact and the planned demolition of residential buildings and businesses, and multiple lawsuits followed. The Great Recession also dried up financing, so construction was delayed until 2010. Ground was broken on March 11, 2010, and the structure reached its full height on January 12, 2012. It opened in 2012, and a sold-out Jay-Z concert was the first event held there, on September 28, 2012.
The Nets' move brought major league sports back to Brooklyn for the first time since the Dodgers left for Los Angeles in 1957. Barclays Bank agreed in 2007 to a 20-year naming rights deal worth $400 million, and a renegotiation two years later cut it to $200 million. The arena belongs to Empire State Development, a New York State authority, through a public entity, the Brooklyn Arena Local Development Corporation. Entities controlled by Joseph Tsai, owner of the Brooklyn Nets, lease and manage it.
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 | 43 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 53 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 68 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Fine lines across the roof
- The wide, rounded roof carries many thin radial lines. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on larger prints, where 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers help.
- Tall tower beside a low arena
- A tall, narrow tower with rows of window lines rises next to the low arena. A larger print keeps those rows readable, and printing slowly with good cooling helps the upper floors.
- One piece with the ground
- Barclays Center 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. Barclays Center 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
Barclays Center 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 Barclays Center 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. Barclays Center grows with the print: about 43 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.
