3D print the Grand Canyon Skywalk
A free, printable model of the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a horseshoe-shaped walkway reaching out from a large building at the canyon edge, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 2 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
2 mm tall on a 160 mm print
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.
- Low walkway, thin side walls
The walkway and its low side walls are small features. A bigger print size keeps more of them, and Print friendly adapts them to the print scale.
- A horseshoe overhang
The curved walkway reaches out past the edge on a few posts. Printing slowly and using layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm helps the overhang come out clean.
- One piece with the ground
The Grand Canyon Skywalk 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 Grand Canyon Skywalk 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 Grand Canyon Skywalk
The Grand Canyon Skywalk is a cantilever bridge shaped like a horseshoe, and its walkway is made of glass. It stands at Eagle Point in Arizona, close to the Colorado River, within the Grand Canyon West area, next to a side canyon of the main canyon, outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park. The Hualapai Indian tribe commissioned and owns it. It was unveiled on March 20, 2007, and the general public could visit from March 28, 2007. The vertical drop directly below is 150 to 240 meters (500 to 800 feet).
Entrepreneur David Jin proposed a platform reaching beyond the canyon's edge. With help from architect Mark Ross Johnson, the idea evolved from a rectangular walkway into the U-shaped one that was built, and Executive Construction Management of Las Vegas was the general contractor. The structure is 20 meters (65 feet) wide overall and reaches 21 meters (70 feet) out from the support posts closest to the canyon wall. Its box beams rest on eight box posts, anchored in pairs to four concrete footings, which are in turn anchored to bedrock with ninety-six rock anchors. The deck is made of four layers of low-iron glass.
The Skywalk was put together on top of the canyon wall, lined up with its final placement, then moved into position with a jack and roll rig. The move took two days. Three tuned mass dampers inside the box beams reduce vibration from footsteps, and the limit is 120 people at one time. Hualapai officials give the cost of the Skywalk as $30 million.
About this model
The Grand Canyon Skywalk is one of more than 4,300 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.
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