3D print One Grand Central Place
A free, printable model of One Grand Central Place and the dense tall buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About One Grand Central Place
One Grand Central Place began as the Lincoln Building, and it is a neo-Gothic office tower of 55 stories and 205 m (673 ft). Its address is 60 East 42nd Street, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Madison Avenue lies along its west side, East 41st Street along its south side and Park Avenue along its east side. It connects directly, inside the building, to Grand Central Terminal on its north side, and the Chrysler Building, the MetLife Building and One Vanderbilt are nearby skyscrapers.
Kenneth Norton designed the skyscraper, which was completed in 1930 under the name Lincoln Building. Gothic windows at the top are among its features. In June 2009 the building took the name One Grand Central Place and went through an $85 million renovation, which brought new windows, refurbished elevators, public corridors and restrooms with air conditioning, and upgrades to systems across the building.
In 1956, Lawrence Wien acquired Daniel Chester French's 0.91 m (3 ft) bronze model of Abraham Lincoln, paying $3,000 to his daughter, Margaret French Cresson. The model is cast from one of the sketches made for the statue at the Lincoln Memorial, and it went on display in the lobby that year. It left the lobby in 2009, when the building was renamed, and went on loan to the Chesterwood estate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. On April 15, 2015, it returned to the lobby.
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 | 56 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 70 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 90 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slim tower, stepped base
- The tower is slim, with stepped setbacks near the base. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the edges crisp, and printing slowly helps a tall, thin shape like this one.
- Pointed windows near the top
- Pointed windows and a ridged crown sit at the top of the tower. Print friendly adapts these small details to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- One Grand Central Place 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. One Grand Central Place 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
One Grand Central Place 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 One Grand Central Place 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. One Grand Central Place grows with the print: about 56 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.
