3D print BC Place
A free, printable model of BC Place with the tall buildings and roads around it in Vancouver, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About BC Place
BC Place, a multi-purpose stadium, stands on the north side of False Creek in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The BC Pavilion Corporation (PavCo), a provincial Crown corporation, owns and operates it. Its tenants include the BC Lions, a Canadian Football League team, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, who play in Major League Soccer, and the annual Canada Sevens event in the World Rugby Sevens Series. The BC Sports Hall of Fame is housed there too.
The stadium was constructed in preparation for Expo 86, the 1986 World's Fair, and building work started in February 1981. It opened on June 19, 1983, as an indoor stadium whose air-supported roof was the largest in the world at that time. In 2010 it was the Olympic stadium, for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, and in 2015 it hosted the final match of FIFA's Women's World Cup.
After the 2010 Winter Olympics, the stadium was closed for 16 months for an extensive revitalization. Its centerpiece was a retractable roof supported by cables, which took the place of the inflatable one. Of its type, the finished roof was also the largest. The opening, 100 by 85 meters (109 by 93 yd), matches the size of the field below, and the fabric retracts into a pod at the center of the opening.
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 | 25 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 32 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 41 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A ring of slender masts
- Many thin masts rise around the roof edge. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, while Full detail keeps every mast on a larger print. Printing slowly with good cooling helps tall thin parts.
- Fine cables across the roof
- Thin cable lines run from the rim toward the center of the roof. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep them crisp, and a bigger print size keeps more of them.
- One piece with the ground
- BC Place 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. BC Place 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
BC Place 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 BC Place 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. BC Place grows with the print: about 25 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.
