3D print Borobudur
A free, printable model of Borobudur and the green fields, paths and small buildings around it in Central Java, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Borobudur
Borobudur, a Mahayana Buddhist temple, stands in Magelang Regency in Central Java, Indonesia, near the town of Muntilan and northwest of Yogyakarta. Its gray andesite-like stone forms nine stacked platforms, six of them square and three circular, with a central dome on top. The temple carries 2,672 relief panels and originally had 504 Buddha statues. A ring of 72 Buddha statues, each inside a perforated stupa, surrounds the central dome.
Pilgrims climb through a network of stairways and corridors lined with 1,460 narrative reliefs carved on its walls and balustrades. The temple was built under the Sailendra dynasty. Its design belongs to Javanese Buddhist architecture, a blend of Indonesian ancestor worship and the Buddhist idea of reaching nirvana. Buddhist pilgrims visit it, and it is regarded as a shrine to the Buddha. Buddhists in Indonesia celebrate Vesak Day there.
The temple is commonly described as 9th-century, although evidence suggests construction in the 8th century, and it was later abandoned. Worldwide knowledge of Borobudur began in 1814, when Thomas Stamford Raffles, who administered Java for the British at the time, was told of its location by native Indonesians. The largest restoration project, by the Indonesian government and UNESCO, was completed in 1983, and the monument was then listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It ranks as the world's largest Buddhist temple, and among Indonesia's tourist attractions it is the most visited monument.
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 | 15 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Rings of small stupas
- The circular terraces carry rings of small bell-shaped stupas around a central dome. They are the finest details: Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, Full detail keeps them on larger prints, and 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers help.
- Wide, low terraces
- The temple is wide and low, with stepped terraces and narrow stairways on each side. A larger print size keeps those steps readable; at small sizes they can merge.
- One piece with the ground
- Borobudur 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. Borobudur 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
Borobudur 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 Borobudur 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. Borobudur 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.
