3D print Carter–Finley Stadium
A free, printable model of Carter–Finley Stadium, its curved seating bowl and tall tiered tower, with the roads and open ground around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Carter–Finley Stadium
Carter–Finley Stadium, a college football venue in Raleigh, North Carolina, has a field named Wayne Day Family Field. NC State Wolfpack football has played there since 1966, the year it opened. It began as Carter Stadium, named for Harry C. and Wilbert J. "Nick" Carter, graduates of the university who helped fund the original building. Albert E. Finley, another major donor to the university, had his name added in September 1979.
NC State had wanted to replace its on-campus Riddick Stadium since the 1950s. That concrete-and-wood stadium dated from 1907 and was showing its age; its capacity peaked at 23,000 seats, of which 14,000 were permanent. The longtime coach Earle Edwards saw many of his teams play more road games than home games, and at his urging school officials pushed for a more modern facility. The site, on University land along Trinity Road, lies a few miles west of the academic campus and just off Hillsborough Street.
Before the 2001 season the university enclosed the south end zone with seats and built the Murphy Center behind it. The Vaughn Towers, with suites, club seating and space for the media, opened for the 2005 season. In 2006 the north end zone got a new grandstand, which made the stadium a bowl. In February 2023 it hosted an NHL Stadium Series game, which the Carolina Hurricanes won 4–1 over the Washington Capitals before 56,961 fans. For the Special Olympics World Summer Games of 1999, it was the main venue.
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 | 19 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 24 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 31 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slim light posts
- Slim light posts stand around the rim of the bowl and on the tall tower. Print friendly adapts thin parts like these to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best printed slowly with good cooling and 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Stepped rows and slim braces
- The bowl is cut into many stepped rows, and a row of slim columns and braces shows along one side. A larger print keeps them easier to read.
- One piece with the ground
- Carter–Finley Stadium 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. Carter–Finley Stadium 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
Carter–Finley Stadium 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 Carter–Finley Stadium 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. Carter–Finley Stadium grows with the print: about 19 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.
