3D print the Gerbrandy Tower
A free, printable model of the radio tower, a thick concrete shaft carrying a very thin mast, on flat fields with canals and small buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Gerbrandy Tower in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- Real height
- 367 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 98 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
367 m of the Gerbrandy Tower, 98 mm on your shelf
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.
- A very thin mast
A hair-thin mast rises far above the concrete shaft, with small collars along it. Print friendly adapts the mast to the print scale; printing slowly and cooling well help the thin upper part.
- Platforms on the shaft
Stacked rings and platforms circle the top of the concrete shaft. Full detail keeps them on a larger print, and a layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
The Gerbrandy 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 Gerbrandy 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 the Gerbrandy Tower
The Gerbrandy Tower (Gerbrandytoren in Dutch) is a radio tower in IJsselstein, in the Netherlands. People also call it the Lopik tower, after a town nearby. It went up in 1961 and carries directional radio services as well as FM and TV broadcasting. A concrete tower 100 meters (328 ft) high supports a guyed aerial mast.
The total height was 382.5 meters (1,255 ft) at first. In 1987 it was cut to 375 meters (1,230 ft), and on August 2, 2007, a digital antenna replaced the analog one and took off another 9 meters (30 ft). That left it at 366.8 meters (1,203 ft). The design is a partially guyed tower, a free-standing lower part under a guyed upper mast. If it is classed as a tower, then no tower in Western Europe is taller. It is named after Pieter Gerbrandy, the Dutch prime minister in the Second World War.
Each year since 1992, from December 6 to January 6, 120 LED lamps on the 12 guy-wires make the tower look like an enormous Christmas tree after dark. In 1998 the Guinness Book of Records recognized it as the world's tallest Christmas tree that forms part of a construction.
About this model
The Gerbrandy Tower is one of more than 4,900 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.
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