3D print the Meridian Gate
A free, printable model of the Meridian Gate, a U-shaped gate with a double-roofed hall, corner turrets and projecting arms, among surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Meridian Gate 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.
- On a 160 mm print
- 11 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
11 mm tall on a 160 mm print
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.
- Roofs and turret finials
Four small turret roofs surround the long double-eaved roof of the central hall, with fine ridge ornaments at their tops. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; a larger print keeps the finials crisp.
- Colonnades and bracket rows
Repeated columns, bracket blocks and door panels line the hall and the two long arms. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm and Full detail on a larger print preserve that rhythm.
- One piece with the ground
The Meridian Gate 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 Meridian Gate 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 Meridian Gate
The Meridian Gate, also called Wumen, forms the southern entrance to Beijing's Forbidden City and is its largest gate. Two protruding arms flank it on either side, a form borrowed from the que towers that once decorated palace, temple and tomb entrances. The arms project outward on both sides of the gate.
The gate has five arches. Three sit close together in the central section; the other two are farther out, between that section and the arms. The center arch was once reserved for the Emperor. The Empress could pass through it on her wedding day, and the three highest-ranked scholars in the civil service exams, held every three years, also used it on their way out. Everyone else used the four side arches.
Above the arches, a row of buildings forms the gate's superstructure. The central pavilion is nine bays wide with double eaves, and each arm carries a thirteen-bay building with a single eave linking two pyramidal-roofed pavilions. The five buildings give the gate its other name, the Five Phoenix Turrets. The gate house was where imperial proclamations and almanacs were issued. The Emperor also received prisoners of war there after successful campaigns.
About this model
The Meridian Gate is one of more than 4,900 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.
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