3D print Hotel Valley Ho
A free, printable model of Hotel Valley Ho and the roads, small buildings and open ground around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Hotel Valley Ho
In Scottsdale, Arizona, the Hotel Valley Ho (also called the Valley Ho) is a historic hotel. Edward L. Varney was its architect, and it opened on December 20, 1956, with a futuristic, forward-looking design. Robert and Evelyn Foehl conceived the hotel and lined up investors to build it on a 3.59 ha (8.86-acre) site.
Varney placed a central pool lounge at the heart of the hotel, and rooms in its wings had air conditioning for use all year, a first for Scottsdale. The name came from a contest in March 1956, which asked for a "westward flavor" like that of the Westward Ho in Phoenix. Movie stars and baseball players stayed there, and the hotel quickly gained a name for trendsetting guests and a fashionable atmosphere. Its success led to an expansion in 1958 that added two more two-story wings of guest rooms.
Ramada bought the hotel in 1973 and redecorated it to cover the 1950s design, then seen as outdated. The hotel closed in 2001, and with no purchase offers coming in, tearing it down was considered. Admirers of its architecture and local history campaigned to save it, and the Scottsdale Historic Register listed it. Westroc Hotels & Resorts bought it in 2002, and the renovation finished in 2005. The firm Allen+Philp designed a tower of seven stories for guest rooms and condominiums, placed over the lobby and echoing Varney's earlier proposal. Alan Hess, an author and architect, has called it one of the country's best-preserved mid-century hotels.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 160 mm default | 7 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 9 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 12 mm | 1:2,344 |
-
North
-
East
-
South
-
West
- Curved wing with balcony lines
- The long, curved wing has fine horizontal balcony lines along both of its levels. A bigger print size keeps more of them, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep them crisp.
- Tower and thin canopies
- A tower rises beside the low wings, with thin canopies near the entrance. Print friendly adapts thin parts and small details to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- Hotel Valley Ho 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. Hotel Valley Ho 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
Hotel Valley Ho 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 Hotel Valley Ho 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. Hotel Valley Ho 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.
