3D print the Comcast Technology Center
A free, printable model of the stepped tower and its slim crown spire, with the dense cluster of downtown towers and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Comcast Technology Center
The Comcast Technology Center rises 342 m (1,121 ft) over 60 floors in Center City, Philadelphia, and counts as a supertall skyscraper. It is the tallest building in Philadelphia and in Pennsylvania. Outside Manhattan and Chicago, no building in the Western Hemisphere is taller. The tower occupies the southwest corner where 18th Street meets Arch Street, a block to the west of the Comcast Center, where Comcast Corporation has its headquarters. Together the two buildings make up the company's Comcast Center Campus.
Foster and Partners led the architecture, with Kendall/Heaton Associates as the collaborating architect, and Gensler worked with Foster and Partners on the interiors. L.F. Driscoll Company served as contractor. Work started in mid-2014, and the tower was finished on November 27, 2017. The central floors are offices for software developers and engineers working for Comcast, and the lowest floors hold television studios and retail stores.
Five tuned sloshing dampers, together holding 125,000 gallons of water, are built into the 57th-floor ceiling, below the hotel lobby. The moving water counteracts the wind on windy days and reduces swaying in the upper part of the tower. Steel braces in the shape of an A, set between hotel rooms on the building's east and west faces, stiffen the upper part. A Four Seasons hotel occupies the 48th to 56th floors, with 219 rooms, 39 of them suites.
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 | 91 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 114 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 146 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slim spire and thin top rods
- The crown ends in a slim spire, with a few thin rods near the top. Print friendly adapts these thin parts to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, so print slowly with good cooling.
- Fine floor lines on the facade
- Every floor is marked by a fine horizontal line. A larger print keeps them readable, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep their edges crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Comcast Technology Center 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 Comcast Technology Center 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 Comcast Technology Center 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 Comcast Technology Center 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 Comcast Technology Center grows with the print: about 91 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.
