3D print the Louisbourg Lighthouse
A free, printable 3D model of the Louisbourg Lighthouse and the surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Louisbourg Lighthouse in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- Real height
- 17 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 5 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
17 m of the Louisbourg Lighthouse, 5 mm on your shelf
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.
- Slow layers for the tower top
A tall tower prints most cleanly at a lower layer height (0.12–0.16 mm) and a slower speed near the top. Print friendly keeps thin upper parts sturdy at small sizes.
- One piece with the ground
The Louisbourg Lighthouse 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 Louisbourg Lighthouse 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 the Louisbourg Lighthouse
In Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, an active Canadian lighthouse stands on a site with a long history. Its present tower is the fourth built there, and the earliest of them was Canada's first lighthouse. Work on that first lighthouse began in 1730 to help ships navigate to the Fortress of Louisbourg, and it was finished in 1734.
In 1736 a fire destroyed its lantern, though the stone tower remained intact, and a new lantern was fitted in 1738. Lighthouse Point proved decisive in the sieges of 1745 and 1758, since whoever captured it gained a commanding spot for a gun battery to bombard the fortress. The tower was badly damaged in 1758, and stonework ruins of it are still visible. The 1842 replacement was a square wooden building with a black stripe, which burned down in 1922.
The present lighthouse, built in 1923, is an octagonal concrete tower decorated with neoclassical features and it matches the Georges Island Lighthouse of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was destaffed in 1990. People like to use it as a lookoff point, and 2008 saw it become the start of the Louisbourg Lighthouse Trail, a coastal walking trail.
About this model
The Louisbourg Lighthouse is one of more than 5,500 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Each model is written as code from public descriptions, plans, photographs and aerial views used only as references; no image or third-party model is copied into it. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. Rights in the building itself, its name and any brands on it are not granted by Mini Skyline; clear them separately before you sell prints. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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