3D print the National Library of Australia
A free, printable model of the National Library of Australia, its colonnade and the lawns and roads around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the National Library of Australia
Parkes, Canberra, is home to the National Library of Australia, the largest reference library in the country. The National Library Act 1960 created it and made it responsible for keeping and building a national collection. Earlier names were the Commonwealth National Library and, for the parliamentary collection, the Commonwealth Parliament Library. It also runs Trove, a cultural heritage discovery service.
In 1901 a parliamentary library was set up for Australia's newly formed Federal Parliament. The Paton Committee recommended an independent National Library in 1957, and the 1960 Act then established the library, and the two libraries became distinct entities. An original building on Kings Avenue, designed by Edwin Hubert Henderson and built in 1934, was demolished in 1968.
The library's present building opened on August 15, 1968, in Parkes. Bunning and Madden designed it in a style called Late Twentieth Century Stripped Classical. The marble foyer includes three tapestries by Mathieu Matégot and stained-glass windows by Leonard French. Above the entrance is Lintel Sculpture, by Tom Bass. Its place on the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List dates from June 22, 2004.
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 | 8 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 10 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 13 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Colonnade of thin columns
- The building is ringed by closely spaced slender columns under a low roof. Print friendly adapts the columns to the print scale; Full detail keeps each one at larger sizes, ideally with a fine nozzle.
- One piece with the ground
- The National Library of Australia 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 National Library of Australia 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 National Library of Australia 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 National Library of Australia 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 National Library of Australia grows with the print: about 8 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.
