3D print the Château de Chenonceau
A free, printable model of the Château de Chenonceau and the river, gardens and green banks around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Château de Chenonceau
The Château de Chenonceau spans the river Cher. This French château stands by the small village of Chenonceaux, in Indre-et-Loire in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It counts as one of the Loire Valley's best-known châteaux. The estate appears in written records from the 11th century. The present château rises from an old mill's foundations, and it was later extended so that it crosses the river. Its architecture combines late Gothic with early Renaissance, and it has been a Monument historique since 1840.
Thomas Bohier, who served King Charles VIII as chamberlain, bought the castle in 1513 and tore down most of it, leaving the 15th-century keep standing. Katherine Briçonnet, his wife, supervised the building and enjoyed entertaining French nobles, King Francis I among them, who visited twice. Francis I took the château in 1535 over debts owed to the Crown. Following his death in 1547, Henry II gave it to Diane de Poitiers, who commissioned the architect Philibert de l'Orme in 1555 for the arched bridge that links the château to the opposite bank, and who laid out gardens in four triangles.
Catherine de' Medici, widow of Henry II, who died in 1559, made Diane trade the château for the Château Chaumont. In 1560 a fireworks display, the first ever seen in France, lit up celebrations marking her son Francis II's accession. In 1577 the grand gallery was dedicated; it runs along the existing bridge and crosses the whole river. Louise Dupin kept the château from being destroyed in the French Revolution, since no other bridge crossed the river for many leagues.
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 | 9 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 11 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 14 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Arched gallery over water
- A long gallery crosses the river on a row of slim arches and piers. A larger print size and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep these arches clean.
- Conical towers and dormers
- Cone-roofed corner towers, small dormers and chimneys crowd the roofline. Print friendly adapts these details to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- One piece with the ground
- The Château de Chenonceau 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 Château de Chenonceau 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 Château de Chenonceau 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 Château de Chenonceau 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 Château de Chenonceau grows with the print: about 9 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.
