3D print Hangar Y at Chalais-Meudon
A free, printable model of Hangar Y at Chalais-Meudon, a long hall with a tall central roof and sloping side roofs, on green ground beside water, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Hangar Y at Chalais-Meudon
Chalais-Meudon, in Meudon south-west of Paris, is a center for aeronautical research and development. It was founded in 1793 at the Château de Meudon nearby and has been important to French aviation. Balloons came first, and the site has remained a hub of aviation development ever since. The world's first aviation museum started life there.
Hangar Y started out as the Great Gallery of Machines, a huge structure designed by Henri de Dion for the 1878 Universal Exhibition in Paris. Colonel Charles Renard moved it to Chalais-Meudon to serve as a balloon store and workshop, and, as with every building on the site, it was given a letter. It measures 70 m (230 ft) long, 41 m (135 ft) wide and 26 m (85 ft) high. Because it could house airships as well, it counts as the first airship hangar in the world, and one of very few still standing in Europe.
La France, the first airship built here, made its first flight on August 9, 1884. It left from just outside Hangar Y, flew over Villacoublay and returned to land safely where it had started, covering about 8 kilometers (5.0 miles) in 23 minutes. It was the first fully controlled closed-circuit flight ever made by a flying machine. The Voliris 900, a modern commercial airship 31 meters (102 ft) long, was the last to use the hangar; it was assembled, inflated and shown to the public there in 2002.
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 | 7 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 9 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 11 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Fine timber-style framing
- Thin frame lines and window grids cover the walls and the gable ends, including a round motif. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- Wide roofs with fine ridges
- The tall central roof and the sloping side roofs carry many thin ridges. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep them crisp at this small size.
- One piece with the ground
- Hangar Y at Chalais-Meudon 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. Hangar Y at Chalais-Meudon 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
Hangar Y at Chalais-Meudon 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 Hangar Y at Chalais-Meudon 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. Hangar Y at Chalais-Meudon grows with the print: about 7 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.
