3D print Gerald J. Ford Stadium
A free, printable model of Gerald J. Ford Stadium, its horseshoe of seating tiers around the field, with nearby buildings, houses and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Gerald J. Ford Stadium
Gerald J. Ford Stadium, in Dallas, Texas, belongs to Southern Methodist University and serves mainly the SMU Mustangs football team. The banker and billionaire Gerald J. Ford supplied most of the money for its construction, and the stadium carries his name. It is oriented north to south and shaped like a bowl, and its stands originally covered the west, east and north sides. In theory it could grow to 45,000 seats if the horseshoe were closed at the south end.
The building stands where Ownby Stadium once was, the school's earlier on-campus football stadium, in use since 1926. Ownby came down starting in late October 1998 to clear the land. The first game in the new stadium, on September 2, 2000, was played against the University of Kansas. The overall attendance record, 36,742, dates from the 2010 Armed Forces Bowl, in which SMU played Army.
Outside the northeast corner is Doak Walker Plaza, which honors a Heisman Trophy winner described as the school's greatest football star. The plaza has a full-size copy of the Doak Walker Award trophy, which goes each year to the best college football running back in the country. The Loyd All-Sports Center, which has lockers, training areas and offices for SMU Athletics, is joined to the northwest corner. More luxury suites were announced in 2012 and finished before the 2013 season.
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 | 10 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 13 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 16 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Thin light towers
- Tall, thin light towers stand around the stands. Print friendly adapts thin poles like these to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best printed slowly with good cooling.
- Curved seating tiers
- The seating is a horseshoe of many curved tiers. A larger print keeps the rows readable, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the curves smooth.
- One piece with the ground
- Gerald J. Ford Stadium 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. Gerald J. Ford Stadium 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
Gerald J. Ford Stadium 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 Gerald J. Ford Stadium 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. Gerald J. Ford Stadium grows with the print: about 10 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.
