3D print Beauvais Cathedral
A free, printable model of Beauvais Cathedral, its flying buttresses and pinnacles, and the dense town streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 18 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
18 mm tall on a 160 mm print
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.
- Pinnacles and flying buttresses
Slender pinnacles and thin flying buttresses ring the east end. Print friendly adapts these delicate parts; Full detail keeps them on a larger print, and printing slowly with good cooling helps.
- Tall walls with fine tracery
The transept facades carry a rose window and fine tracery. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep that detail crisp, and a larger print size gives it more room.
- One piece with the ground
Beauvais 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. Beauvais 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 Beauvais Cathedral
In the northern French town of Beauvais, in Oise, stands Beauvais Cathedral, a Catholic church also called Saint-Pierre de Beauvais. The bishop responsible for Beauvais, Noyon and Senlis has his seat there, and it has been a listed national monument from 1840 onward. It consists of a 13th-century choir whose apse opens onto seven polygonal chapels via an ambulatory, and a transept from the 16th century adjoins it. It was never finished: nobody built the planned nave. The Basse Œuvre ("Lower Work"), left over from an earlier 10th-century Romanesque cathedral, stands on the ground meant for the nave.
Count-bishop Milo of Nanteuil started the work in 1225, backed by money from his family. The choir was completed in 1272, and in 1284 some of its vaulting collapsed. It was rebuilt to the same height, with extra columns. The transept was finished in 1548, and a tower of 153 m (502 ft) followed in 1569, making this the highest human construction in the world until the tower and crossing vaults collapsed in 1573. Work on the nave began in 1600, but only its first arch was built before construction halted for the final time.
Its designers aimed to outdo Amiens and Notre-Dame de Paris and build France's largest Gothic cathedral. A medieval clock from the 14th or 15th century in a chapel near the northern entrance may be the oldest mechanical clock in Europe that is fully preserved and still working. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc called the choir "the Parthenon of French Gothic."
About this model
Beauvais Cathedral is one of more than 4,300 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.
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