3D print the Goodyear Airdock
A free, printable model of the Goodyear Airdock, its long curved shell and the open ground and nearby buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Goodyear Airdock
The Goodyear Airdock is a hangar for building and storing airships in Akron, Ohio. Finished in 1929, it held the title of largest building in the world with no interior supports. One description of its unusual form is "half a silkworm's cocoon."
The hangar measures 358 m (1,175 ft) long, 99 m (325 ft) wide and 64 m (211 ft) high, and 13 steel arches hold it up. Its unobstructed floor area is 34 000 m2 (364,000 square feet). At each end sit two semi-spherical doors, each weighing 600 tons, which roll on curved railroad tracks.
Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation commissioned Karl Arnstein to design it, and construction ran from April 20 until November 25, 1929. USS Akron (1931) and USS Macon, its sister ship, were the first two airships made there. The Navy's ZPG-3W, in 1960, was the final one. The American Society of Civil Engineers designated it a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1980.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 850 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 | 12 mm | 1:5,313 |
| 200 mm | 15 mm | 1:4,250 |
| 256 mm | 20 mm | 1:3,320 |
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- One long curved shell
- The airdock is a single smooth curved shell with fine ribbing. A layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps the curve from showing steps, and Full detail keeps the rib lines.
- Rounded ends
- The two ends curve sharply down to the ground, so the print size matters: bigger prints hold the rib lines and the small features along the ridge.
- One piece with the ground
- The Goodyear Airdock 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 Goodyear Airdock 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 Goodyear Airdock 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 Goodyear Airdock 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 Goodyear Airdock grows with the print: about 12 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.
