3D print the Château de Pierrefonds
A free, printable model of the Château de Pierrefonds, with its round towers and pointed roofs, and the grassy hill and village buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Château de Pierrefonds
In northern France, the Château de Pierrefonds stands in the commune of Pierrefonds, which is in the Oise department of the Hauts-de-France region. The castle is on the forest of Compiègne's southeast edge, to the northeast of Paris, with Villers-Cotterêts and Compiègne as the nearby towns. Its design shows most features of medieval defensive military architecture, though 19th-century restoration work was extensive.
The site received a castle in the 12th century. In 1392, King Charles VI raised the County of Valois, which included Pierrefonds, to a duchy, passing it to Louis I, Duke of Orléans, his brother. Between 1393 and Louis's death in 1407, he had court architect Jean le Noir rebuild the castle. In March 1617, troops sent by Cardinal Richelieu laid siege to it and captured it. Demolition started but was abandoned partway, since the job was so enormous. It was left in ruins, and in 1810 Napoleon I purchased it for under 3,000 francs.
Napoleon III, as emperor, commissioned Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1857 to restore the castle, and Maurice Ouadou and then Juste Lisch carried on the work until 1885. By 1861 the plan had expanded, as the sovereign wished to make an imperial residence. Inside, Viollet-le-Duc's work was closer to invention than restoration, imagining how the castle should have looked, while on the exterior he showed a deep knowledge of 14th-century military architecture.
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 | 21 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 27 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 34 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Cone-shaped tower roofs
- The round towers end in pointed cone roofs with small battlements. Print slowly with good cooling so the tips stay clean, and use Print friendly to adapt them to the print scale.
- Gables and tiny dormers
- The central block has many pointed gables and small dormers. Full detail keeps them on a larger print, ideally with 0.12–0.16 mm layers.
- One piece with the ground
- The Château de Pierrefonds 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 Pierrefonds 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 Pierrefonds 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 Pierrefonds 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 Pierrefonds grows with the print: about 21 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.
