3D print the Cable Building
A free, printable model of the Cable Building, a block-sized building with a decorated cornice and arched windows, with the buildings and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 12 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
12 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.
- Cornice and arched windows
A row of small rounded finials runs along the roofline, and the lower floors have many arched windows. Full detail keeps these small features; a layer height of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keeps them crisp.
- Narrow roof court
A narrow court is cut into the roof, and the walls carry fine detail. Print friendly adapts thin parts like these to the print scale; a larger print keeps more of them.
- One piece with the ground
The Cable Building 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. The Cable Building 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 the Cable Building
The Cable Building, 611 Broadway, sits at the northwest corner of Broadway and Houston Street, where NoHo meets Greenwich Village. Because it fills a whole block, its other addresses are 178–188 Mercer Street and 2–18 West Houston Street. Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White designed it, and it was built in 1892–1894. The nine-story Beaux-Arts building is the firm's only one in the NoHo Historic District.
Its frame is steel and iron, faced with brick, stone and terra-cotta. A limestone base carries a two-story arcade of show windows with iron spandrels and keystones, and a prominent copper cornice is decorated with acanthus, egg-and-dart moldings and lions' faces. The main entrance on Broadway was flanked by two figures, each 11 feet high, sculpted by J. Massey Rhind.
The building was first the headquarters and power station of the Metropolitan Traction Company, a Broadway cable car operator. Its basement, excavated 46 feet under the street, held four winding wheels, described as 32-foot, which carried the cables. Electric power replaced the cable traction in 1901, but the building kept its name. In 1989 the old powerhouse space became the Angelika Film Center. The NoHo Historic District, which includes the building, was designated in 1999.
About this model
The Cable Building 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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