3D print the Eureka Tower
A free, printable model of Eureka Tower, its stepped lower blocks and angled crown, with the nearby tall buildings and river around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Eureka Tower
Eureka Tower stands in Melbourne's Southbank precinct, in Victoria, Australia, rising 297.3 m (975 ft). Construction began in August 2002, the exterior was completed on June 1, 2006, and the tower officially opened on October 11, 2006. Melbourne firm Fender Katsalidis Architects designed it, and Grocon (Grollo Australia) built it. It has 91 stories above ground plus one basement level, and 556 apartments served by 13 elevators. Upon completion it held the record as the tallest residential building worldwide, by roof height or by highest habitable floor.
The name and theme come from the Eureka Stockade, a rebellion in 1854, during the Victorian gold rush. The gold crown evokes the gold rush, while a red stripe evokes the blood spilt in the revolt. Blue glass cladding over most of the tower recalls the flag's blue background, and white lines also echo that flag. The white horizontal stripes also mimic the markings of a surveyor's measuring staff. Windows on the top 10 floors use gold-plated glass of 24 carat (99.9%) gold.
Level 88 holds an observation deck, and level 89 holds a restaurant, a cocktail bar and an event space. The deck includes The Edge, a glass cube that extends 3 m (9.8 ft) beyond the building's face and turns clear once fully extended. Two 300,000-liter water tanks near the top, with pumps constantly moving water between them, counteract wind-induced oscillations. Construction took 4 years and 2 months, using reinforced concrete and a slipform method.
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 | 80 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 100 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 128 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slender tower and angled crown
- The tower is slender, with an angled crown at the top. Printing slowly with good cooling helps tall thin shapes like this one, and a larger print size keeps the crown's edges sharp.
- Fine vertical lines and stepped base
- Fine vertical lines run up the tower, and the lower blocks step out. Print friendly adapts the fine lines to the print scale; Full detail keeps them. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the edges crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Eureka Tower 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 Eureka Tower 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 Eureka Tower 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 Eureka Tower 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 Eureka Tower grows with the print: about 80 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.
