3D print Kenan Stadium
A free, printable model of Kenan Stadium, with its horseshoe of tiered stands, and the buildings, lawns and green patches around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Kenan Stadium
Kenan Stadium, formerly Kenan Memorial Stadium, hosts college football in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Stadium Drive, as the home of the football team of UNC Chapel Hill. It replaced Emerson Field, where the program had been based since 1916. Ground was broken in December 1926 and the work was completed in August 1927. On November 12, 1927, the Tar Heels beat the Davidson Wildcats 27–0 in the first game, before 9,000 spectators. Its official opening and dedication came on November 24, 1927, in a 14–13 win for the Tar Heels over the visiting Virginia Cavaliers.
Emerson Field seated 2,400 and by the mid-1920s was too small for demand. At the 1925 rivalry game with Virginia, 16,000 fans stood beside the field or sat on wooden bleachers. A fundraising drive started at a meeting at the Washington Duke Hotel in Durham on May 24, 1926, with plans for a horseshoe-shaped venue in a natural amphitheater south of Emerson Field. On November 13, 1926, a $275,000 gift for the new stadium came from William R. Kenan Jr., in remembrance of his mother and father, Mary Hargrave and William Rand Kenan.
The plan after Kenan's gift called for 12,000 seats along each side, 24,000 in all, with no seats at the ends so that no seat would be bad and air could pass through the field. It also called for a cinder track circling the field, a quarter mile in length, for track and field events. After debating a ravine south of campus, the committee chose a site 500 feet farther down. Site clearing was under way by December 9: most undergrowth was gone and some trees were being felled.
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 | 13 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 16 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 20 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Long ribbed tiers of seating
- The curved stands are made of many thin, ribbed tiers. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print, ideally with 0.12–0.16 mm layers.
- Slim supports under the stands
- Thin columns and rails hold up parts of the curved stands. Print slowly with good cooling, and pick a larger print size to keep them sturdy.
- One piece with the ground
- Kenan Stadium 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. Kenan Stadium 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
Kenan Stadium 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 Kenan Stadium 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. Kenan Stadium grows with the print: about 13 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.
