3D print Mission San Xavier del Bac
A free, printable model of Mission San Xavier del Bac and the open ground and low buildings around it near Tucson, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Mission San Xavier del Bac
Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Catholic mission from the Spanish era, lies roughly 10 miles (16 km) south of Tucson's downtown, in Arizona, on the San Xavier Indian Reservation of the Tohono O'odham Nation. Eusebio Kino founded it in 1692 amid a settlement of the Sobaipuri O'odham that was already centuries old, beside the Santa Cruz River. Francis Xavier, who helped found the Jesuit Order in Europe, gave the mission its name. The O'odham call the place Wa:k, or Water Place.
An Apache raid in 1770 demolished the original church. Juan Bautista Llorenz and Juan Bautista Velderrain, both Franciscan fathers, directed the construction of the present building, between 1783 and 1797. They borrowed 7,000 pesos from a Sonoran rancher and hired Ignacio Gaona, an architect, who put a large O'odham workforce to work. This rebuilding makes the mission the oldest European structure in Arizona.
The exterior is elegant white stucco with a Moorish-inspired look and an ornately decorated entrance with massive carved mesquite-wood doors. The floor plan resembles a Latin cross, with a transept that divides the main aisle from the sanctuary and puts a chapel at each end. Arches and squinches support the transept dome, which rises 52 feet (16 m), and at least three artists painted the artwork inside. In 1960 it was named a National Historic Landmark; the National Register of Historic Places followed in 1966.
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 | 7 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 9 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 11 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Open belfries and small domes
- The two towers have open arched belfries, and one carries a small dome and cross. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm and a slower print speed help these small parts stay crisp.
- A carved front and tiny pinnacles
- The entrance front is richly detailed, and small pinnacles line the nave roof. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, while Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- Mission San Xavier del Bac 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. Mission San Xavier del Bac 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
Mission San Xavier del Bac 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 Mission San Xavier del Bac 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. Mission San Xavier del Bac grows with the print: about 7 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.
