3D print Edinburgh Castle
A free, printable model of Edinburgh Castle, its towers and walls on the crag, and the parkland and city streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle on Castle Rock in Edinburgh, Scotland, a crag humans have occupied since at least the Iron Age. A royal castle has occupied the rock ever since Malcolm III reigned in the 11th century, and it was a royal residence until 1633. By the 17th century it served mainly as a military garrison. The rock is the plug of an extinct volcano; its summit is 130 m (430 ft) above sea level, and cliffs on three sides, south, west and north, rise up to 80 m (260 ft) above the surroundings.
Over time the castle has also been a prison, a mint, an arsenal, a treasury, a military fortress and a national archive, as well as a royal residence and the home of the Scottish regalia, the Honours of Scotland. A 2014 study counted 26 sieges across the castle's 1,100-year history. Few of the present buildings predate the Lang Siege of 1573, when artillery bombardment largely destroyed the medieval defenses. St Margaret's Chapel, dating to the early 12th century and regarded as Edinburgh's oldest building, is a notable survivor, along with the Royal Palace and the Great Hall of the early 16th century.
Within its walls are the National War Museum and the Scottish National War Memorial. The British Army still looks after certain parts, though its role there is now mostly ceremonial and administrative, and it serves as regimental headquarters for the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the Royal Regiment of Scotland. Historic Environment Scotland cares for it, and during the annual Edinburgh Festival it is the setting for the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
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 | 19 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 24 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Crowded towers and battlements
- Many small towers, turrets and battlements crowd the castle. Print friendly adapts the finest ones to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Steep rock and tall walls
- The castle rises on a steep crag behind tall plain walls. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm and a slower print speed keep these long wall faces clean.
- One piece with the ground
- Edinburgh Castle 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. Edinburgh Castle 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
Edinburgh Castle 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 an Edinburgh Castle 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. Edinburgh Castle 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.
