3D print One PPG Place
A free, printable model of One PPG Place and the dense city buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About One PPG Place
In downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PPG Place brings together six buildings on five and a half acres; the architects were Philip Johnson and John Burgee. PPG Industries, its anchor tenant, gave the complex its name after launching the project as its headquarters. At the center stands One PPG Place, an office tower of 40 stories. A single glass design, using 19,750 pieces of glass, unites all of the buildings.
Ground was broken on January 28, 1981. The complex opened between 1983 and 1984 and was dedicated at a ceremony on April 11, 1984, after a total cost of $200 million. Its neogothic design, with modern innovations, drew on several inspirations: London's Victoria Tower, the Allegheny County Courthouse by H. H. Richardson, and Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning by Charles Klauder. The most recognizable features are its 231 glass spires, the largest reaching 82 feet (25 m).
One PPG Place rises 40 stories. Also in the complex are one 14-story building and four of six stories, all around an open-air plaza. A red-glass entrance 50 feet (15 m) high leads into the lobby, and the 21 elevators have clear glass walls enclosing fractured glass. In summer the glass bounces heat away, and in winter it keeps infrared heat inside.
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 | 52 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 65 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 83 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A crown of thin spires
- The top bristles with thin pointed spires, a few much taller than the rest. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print. Print slowly with good cooling.
- Fine vertical ribs
- Tall vertical ribs run up all four sides of the tower. A larger print size and 0.12–0.16 mm layers keep them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- One PPG 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 PPG 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 PPG 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 PPG 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 PPG Place grows with the print: about 52 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.
