3D print the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
A free, printable model of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda with the green grounds, roads and low buildings around it in Xi'an, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, also called the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, is a Buddhist pagoda of seven stories, within the grounds of Daci'en Temple in the south of Xi'an, in Shaanxi, China. It dates to 652, when Xi'an was Chang'an, the Tang capital, and the monk and translator Xuanzang directed the work. Xuanzang oversaw the building so that the scriptures and images he brought back from India could be kept there.
The original tower had five stories, a brick shell and a core of soil, and was 60 m (200 ft) high. Funds from Empress Wu Zetian and the nobles paid for its demolition and for a replacement, a seven-story pavilion-style square tower, and later dynasties repaired it. Its brick exterior reflects major work in the Ming dynasty. According to the most widely accepted theory, its name comes from a legend in which a wild goose is buried and a pagoda built.
The pagoda is a square brick tower in the pavilion style, made of a base, body and top, and its total height including the base is 64.1 m. At each floor junction, square pillars, balustrades, arches and dougong imitate wooden construction. The base is about 4.2 m high and about 48.8 m wide from north to south, and the upper levels taper into a cone-like form. In 2014 UNESCO added it to its World Heritage listing for the Silk Roads, as a component of the Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor network.
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 | 18 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 22 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 28 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Seven stacked tiers
- Each of the seven tiers has fine cornice lines and a small arched opening. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the horizontal lines crisp, and a bigger print size keeps the small arches readable.
- A small spire on the cap
- The pointed cap ends in a slender spire. Printing slowly with good cooling helps this tall thin tip, and Print friendly adapts it to the print scale.
- One piece with the ground
- The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda 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 Giant Wild Goose Pagoda 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 Giant Wild Goose Pagoda 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 Giant Wild Goose Pagoda 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 Giant Wild Goose Pagoda grows with the print: about 18 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.
