3D print Old Parliament House, Canberra
A free, printable model of Old Parliament House, a low building around open courtyards, set among lawns and roads, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Old Parliament House, Canberra
Old Parliament House, once called the Provisional Parliament House, housed the Parliament of Australia between 1927 and 1988. It began operating on May 9, 1927, after Parliament moved from Melbourne to Canberra, the new capital. In 1988, the Commonwealth Parliament moved into a new building, Parliament House on Capital Hill. A museum of the building and of Australian democracy more broadly has occupied it since 2009, under the name Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD). It hosts temporary exhibitions, lectures, functions and conferences as well.
Seen across Lake Burley Griffin, it sits in front of Parliament House and lines up with the Australian War Memorial. John Smith Murdoch designed it with a team of assistants working in the Department of Works and Railways. It was meant to be neither temporary nor permanent, a provisional building for Parliament's needs for at most 50 years. The design reached beyond the walls to its gardens, décor and furnishings, and the style is Simplified Classical, commonly used for Australian government buildings in Canberra in the 1920s and 1930s.
Murdoch's design is a brick building of three stories, its principal floor on the middle level, built of Canberra clay brick and originally rendered in white concrete, since painted. The front façade shows only two stories and has strong horizontal lines, with taller masses behind it marking the two debating chambers and a lower mass between them where King's Hall is located. The building is 18.5 m (61 ft) high at the roof of the chambers, excluding the flagpole. Extensions turned its original H shape into a large rectangle with four courtyards.
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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- Courtyards and window rows
- The building wraps around open courtyards and has many rows of small windows. Print friendly adapts the finest of them to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best on a larger print with a fine nozzle.
- Flagpole and rooftop blocks
- A thin flagpole and small blocks rise from the roofline. Printing slowly helps the thin pole, and Print friendly adapts the smallest rooftop details to your print scale.
- One piece with the ground
- Old Parliament House, Canberra 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. Old Parliament House, Canberra 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
Old Parliament House, Canberra 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 an Old Parliament House, Canberra 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. Old Parliament House, Canberra 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.
