3D print the Charminar
A free, printable model of the Charminar, its four tall minarets and grand arches, with the roads and dense buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Charminar
The Charminar, whose name means 'four minarets', is a monument in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, the fifth ruler in the Qutb Shahi line, built it in 1591 after he left Golconda, his previous capital, for the newly formed city of Hyderabad. It is a symbol of the city and part of the Telangana emblem. The monument stands on the east bank of the Musi River, with Laad Bazaar to the west and the richly ornamented Makkah Masjid to the southwest, and it remained Hyderabad's tallest structure for 396 years, until 1987.
The Archaeological Survey of India says there are various theories about why it was built, and that it is widely accepted it was placed in the middle of the city to mark the eradication of plague. A French traveler of the 17th century, Jean de Thévenot, wrote that it commemorated the start of the Islamic calendar's second millennium (1000 AH). It was meant to work as a mosque and as a madrasa, and the mosque sits on the top floor of the four-story building. Its architecture is Indo-Islamic with Persian elements, in granite, limestone, mortar and pulverized marble.
The structure is square, with each side 20 meters (66 feet) long. Four grand arches, one on each side, open straight onto the street in front of them. A minaret with a double balcony rises at each corner, topped by a bulbous dome with petal-like designs at its base. The four fluted minarets are part of the main structure itself, unlike the minarets of the Taj Mahal. A winding staircase of 149 steps leads to the upper floor, and in 1889 a clock was added facing each of the four cardinal directions.
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 | 15 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 18 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 23 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slender minarets and finials
- Four tall minarets end in small domes with thin finials. 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.
- Arches and the small arcade
- The tall arches and the small arcade above them are delicate. A larger print keeps them easier to read.
- One piece with the ground
- The Charminar 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 Charminar 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 Charminar 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 Charminar 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 Charminar grows with the print: about 15 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.
