3D print the Heard Building
A free, printable model of the Heard Building and the larger buildings and streets around it in Phoenix, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Heard Building
In Phoenix, Arizona, the Heard Building (also known as the Greater Arizona Savings Building) rises seven stories. It was put up in 1919 and 1920, and it was the first high-rise erected in Phoenix. For four years it was the tallest building in Arizona, until the Luhrs Building was completed in 1924. Construction began on September 2, 1919, and Llewellyn Adelbert Parker was the architect.
Dwight B. Heard put up the money together with the Commonwealth Investment Company, to house his investment and publishing businesses. Heard resolved, after a 1910 blaze destroyed the Adams Hotel, to build every later project from concrete to lower the fire risk, and the whole frame of this building is reinforced concrete. From 1920 to 1948 it housed offices of the Phoenix Gazette and the Arizona Republic (earlier named the Arizona Republican).
Radio station KTAR, which took that call sign on January 1, 1930, moved its studios and transmitter into the building. Two towers of 180 ft (55 m) on the roof held up the antenna, and the station's 1000-watt transmitter, made by Western Electric, sat on the seventh floor. In 1922, a climber named Bill Strother, known as the "Human Spider", scaled the front of the building and sat atop the flagpole.
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 | 8 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 11 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 13 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Zigzag fire-escape stairs
- Thin, zigzag stair runs climb the side wall. Print friendly adapts them on a small print; use Full detail and a larger print size to keep every flight.
- Flat roof with small units
- The roof carries several small rooftop boxes and a stepped section. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep their edges crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Heard Building 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 Heard Building 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 Heard Building 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 Heard Building 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 Heard Building grows with the print: about 8 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.
