3D print the California Hotel and Casino
A free, printable model of the California Hotel and Casino, two adjoining hotel towers with lettering on the roof, among downtown buildings and parking lots, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the California Hotel and Casino
The California Hotel and Casino, nicknamed The Cal, sits in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, and belongs to Boyd Gaming. It was the first Boyd Gaming property in the downtown area of Las Vegas. Stockholders under Sam Boyd's lead developed it, and Sam Boyd and his son Bill each held 25 percent. Despite the name, it is a Hawaiian-themed property that draws many guests from Hawaii through vacation packages.
The first hotel tower, with 11 stories, was topped off in September 1974. Its January 1, 1975, opening came with 325 rooms, two restaurants and an entertainment lounge, after a $10 million build. A $1 million renovation in 1982 added a neon sign circling the lower part of the casino between 1st Street and Ogden Avenue, and the tower was finished with a lighted parapet. In 1984 a second hotel tower, 14 stories tall, appeared to the west of the original, with a six-story parking garage; a 1994 addition at its north end lifted the room count to 781.
Boyd had once lived in Hawaii, a state where gambling is illegal, and turned toward the Hawaiian market after slow early business. He offered Hawaiian food, encouraged a more casual atmosphere and introduced vacation packages from the islands. The term "Golden Arm" became the casino's label in 1989 for Stanley Fujitake, who rolled the dice in craps for three hours and six minutes without losing.
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 | 13 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 16 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 21 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Lettering along the roofline
- The name is spelled out in lettering along the roofline. Print friendly adapts it to the print scale; Full detail keeps it, which suits a larger print.
- Rows of small windows
- Both towers carry fine rows of window lines. A larger print and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The California Hotel and Casino 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 California Hotel and Casino 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
The California Hotel and Casino 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 California Hotel and Casino 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. The California Hotel and Casino grows with the print: about 13 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.
