3D print the Cathedral of Saint Augustine
A free, printable model of the Cathedral of Saint Augustine, a long church with two domed towers at the front, and the buildings and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Cathedral of Saint Augustine
In Tucson, Arizona, the Cathedral of Saint Augustine serves as the cathedral and mother church for Tucson's Catholic diocese. The cathedral grew out of St. Augustine Church, which Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, appointed pastor of Tucson in 1866, finished in 1868. Also in 1868, Pope Pius IX established the Vicariate Apostolic of Arizona with Salpointe as vicar apostolic, and St. Augustine Church became a cathedral.
A decision by Pope Leo XIII in 1897 turned the vicariate into the Diocese of Arizona, and Peter Bourgade became its first bishop. A new cathedral of brick was built that year. Plans called for a Gothic building, yet the spires were never added. In 1928 the diocese added a cast stone façade, aiming for a Mexican baroque form like that of Mexico's Querétaro Cathedral. The interior was gutted and rebuilt from 1966 to 1968, and a major renovation in 2010 ended with a rededication on February 12, 2011.
The façade carries Pope Pius XI's coat of arms, and indigenous desert plants such as yucca and saguaro blossoms appear in its stone designs, along with an image of Mission San Xavier del Bac. Inside, a crucifix 5.2 m (17 ft) tall, carved in Pamplona, Spain, in the 12th or 13th century, stands against the rear wall of the sanctuary. Up to 1,250 people fit inside.
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 | 8 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 10 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 13 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Twin domed bell towers
- Two bell towers end in small domes with lanterns and crosses, so print slowly with good cooling. Print friendly adapts these small details to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print.
- Layered front relief
- The front facade has layered relief around the entrance and a curved gable. A larger print size keeps it readable, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the relief crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Cathedral of Saint Augustine 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 Cathedral of Saint Augustine 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 Cathedral of Saint Augustine 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 Cathedral of Saint Augustine 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 Cathedral of Saint Augustine grows with the print: about 8 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.
