3D print the Golden Nugget Las Vegas
A free, printable model of the Golden Nugget's cluster of hotel towers, with the streets and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Golden Nugget Las Vegas
Downtown Las Vegas is home to the Golden Nugget, a luxury hotel and casino on the Fremont Street Experience. It was originally built in 1946, which places it among the oldest casinos in Las Vegas. Steve Wynn built up his stake until, in 1973, he became majority shareholder and the city's youngest casino owner. He opened the first hotel tower in 1977, and Mobil Travel Guide gave the resort its first four-diamond rating. A second tower and a showroom followed in 1984, and a third tower in 1986.
The property changed hands several times afterward. Mirage Resorts' properties, the Golden Nugget among them, were sold to MGM Grand, Inc. in 2000, and Poster Financial Group paid $215 million for the Golden Nugget in 2003. That group's story provided the basis for a Fox series called The Casino, which premiered on June 14, 2004. Landry's, Inc. said on February 4, 2005, that it planned to buy the property, and the deal closed on September 27, 2005. A 14-month, $100 million renovation followed, completed in November 2006.
Further phases widened the resort. Phase II, finished in December 2007, extended it west onto First Street with more entertainment, event and dining venues, and the Rush hotel Tower opened on November 20, 2009, adding 500 rooms in a $150 million project. The expanded resort is arranged around two aquariums, and the larger one faces the swimming pool, where a slide runs through a tank of full-grown sharks. The lobby holds the Hand of Faith, a nugget of 875 troy ounces that is the largest one on display in the world.
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 | 23 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 28 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 36 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Window grids on tall towers
- The towers carry fine grids of windows. A larger print size keeps more of them, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the vertical lines crisp.
- Narrow gaps between towers
- Several slab towers of different heights stand close together. Print friendly adapts thin parts and small details to the print scale; Full detail keeps every modeled feature, which suits a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- The Golden Nugget Las Vegas 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 Golden Nugget Las Vegas 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 Golden Nugget Las Vegas 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 Golden Nugget Las Vegas 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 Golden Nugget Las Vegas grows with the print: about 23 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.
