3D print Fountain Place
A free, printable model of Fountain Place, a faceted tower with sloping sides and a pointed top, among other buildings and streets, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Fountain Place
Fountain Place is a late-modernist skyscraper of 60 stories in downtown Dallas, Texas. It was completed in 1986 to a design credited to Harry Weese Associates, WZMH Architects, Henry N. Cobb and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Its structural height is 220 m (720 ft). When it opened it ranked second in height among the city's buildings, behind Bank of America Plaza. It was first listed as Allied Bank Tower and as First Interstate Tower, and became Fountain Place after the 1988 Wells Fargo merger.
The 172 dancing fountains that fill the plaza around its base give the building its name, and a fully automated water show is their centerpiece. The company WET Design joined the project, its first major one since its founders left Disney to team up. Dan Kiley and Peter Ker Walker, both landscape architects, worked with WET and I. M. Pei's firm on the waterscape. WET's patented open-jointed paving was used here in a fountain for the first time. Later WET designed the Dubai Fountain, and the fountains of the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
The building is a large multi-faceted prism, and its slanted sides give it a completely different profile from every direction. Original plans called for twin towers, the second rotated 90 degrees and standing across the garden on a neighboring lot, but the 1980s collapse of Texas's oil, banking and real estate industries, along with the savings and loan scandal, kept the second tower from being built.
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 | 60 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 75 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 95 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Sloping faces, sharp edges
- The sloping faces meet at sharp edges and a pointed top. Printing slowly and using layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm help the edges stay clean.
- A cut-away base
- Parts of the tower's base are cut away, leaving open gaps between a few thick legs. A bigger print size gives those legs more strength.
- One piece with the ground
- Fountain Place 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. Fountain Place 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
Fountain Place 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 Fountain Place 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. Fountain Place grows with the print: about 60 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.
