3D print Les Invalides
A free, printable model of Les Invalides and its domed church, with the esplanade, lawns and Paris streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Les Invalides
Les Invalides, formally the Hôtel des Invalides, is a group of buildings in Paris's 7th arrondissement. Its museums and monuments all deal with French military history, and it also has a hospital and a retirement home for old soldiers, which was what the building was first meant to be. The Musée de l'Armée, the Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine and the Musée des Plans-Reliefs are inside, as is the national cathedral of the military, Saint-Louis-des-Invalides.
In an order dated November 24, 1670, Louis XIV set the project in motion: a home and hospital for veterans of his campaigns who were old or disabled. Libéral Bruant was the first architect. When the enlarged project was finished in 1676, its Seine-facing facade measured 196 m (643 ft) across, and there were fifteen courtyards, the cour d'honneur being the largest, built for military parades.
Jules Hardouin-Mansart designed the church-and-chapel complex in 1676, and his Royal Chapel, the Dôme des Invalides, was finished in 1706. It is Paris's tallest church building at 107 m (351 ft) and a prime example of French Baroque architecture. Charles de La Fosse painted the interior of the dome, finishing in 1705. Napoleon was entombed beneath it in 1840, and the chapel has become a shrine for several of the nation's foremost military figures.
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 | 29 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 36 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 46 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Dome, lantern and cross
- A tall lantern and a small cross crown the dome and are the finest details. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm and slower printing keep the tip crisp; Print friendly adapts the cross to the print scale.
- Drum with a ring of columns
- A ring of narrow columns and arched openings circles the drum below the dome. A larger print size keeps them distinct, and Full detail keeps them for a fine nozzle.
- One piece with the ground
- Les Invalides 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. Les Invalides 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
Les Invalides 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 Les Invalides 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. Les Invalides grows with the print: about 29 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.
