3D print Chehel Sotoun
A free, printable model of the Chehel Sotoun pavilion and the garden with its paths and pools around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Chehel Sotoun
Chehel Sotoun stands in Isfahan, Iran, a 17th century pavilion and garden whose Persian name means 'Forty Columns'. Abbas the Great ordered it and Shah Abbas II finished it; both were Safavid shahs, and they used it mainly for receptions and royal entertainment.
The palace holds many frescoes and paintings on ceramic. Four major frescoes are thought to date from around 1650, somewhere between 1647 and 1666. In that year Jean Chardin visited and described the paintings as three royal entertainments and a battle scene. Many of the ceramic panels have since been dispersed, and some are held by major museums in the West.
Wall and ceiling designs in the hall blend painting, tiling and ayeneh-kari, which ranks the building among the best examples of Safavid-era Persian architecture. It houses a museum, and works of art from different periods are shown in its central hall. Chehel Sotoun Garden is one of nine Iranian gardens that, since 2011, have carried the Persian Gardens World Heritage Site inscription.
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 | 4 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 6 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 7 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slender porch columns
- The long porch stands on thin columns. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, while Full detail keeps every column on a larger print or with a fine nozzle.
- Shallow domes and arches
- The three low domes and arched facade details are small. A layer height of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keeps their curves smooth.
- One piece with the ground
- Chehel Sotoun 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. Chehel Sotoun 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
Chehel Sotoun 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 Chehel Sotoun 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. Chehel Sotoun grows with the print: about 4 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.
