3D print the Kibbie Dome
A free, printable model of the Kibbie Dome and the roads, fields and hillside around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Kibbie Dome
The Kibbie Dome is an indoor athletic stadium for many sports, on the University of Idaho campus in Moscow, Idaho. The name is misleading, since a barrel-arched roof covers the stadium rather than a dome. The Idaho Vandals use it for four sports: tennis, soccer, football and indoor track and field. It has 16,000 permanent seats, and its playing surface sits 795 m (2,610 ft) above sea level.
It opened in October 1971 as an outdoor concrete football stadium, replacing the old wooden Neale Stadium, which had been demolished. After the 1974 season the stadium got its barrel-arched roof and end walls, and in September 1975 it reopened fully enclosed. The roof spans 120 m (400 ft) from sideline to sideline and reaches a maximum height of 45 m (150 ft) above the hashmarks.
The enclosure took ten months and $1 million. The Trus Joist Company of Boise won the contract and used it to show off its engineered wood products, when steel and aluminum were the usual materials for domes. In 1976 the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the roof a structural engineering achievement award. The stadium was named after William H. Kibbie, a construction executive who was a primary benefactor of the project. Its Tartan Turf field, installed in 1972, was the first one-piece field in the world.
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 | 15 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 19 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 24 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- One broad smooth arch
- Most of the model is a single wide curved roof. Layer lines can show on a curve, so a layer height of 0.12 to 0.16 mm gives a smoother arch than coarser layers.
- Small buildings at the ends
- Low blocks and stairs sit against the ends of the roof. Print friendly adapts small details to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- The Kibbie Dome 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 Kibbie Dome 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 Kibbie Dome 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 Kibbie Dome 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 Kibbie Dome grows with the print: about 15 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.
