3D print Parliament House Canberra
A free, printable model of Parliament House in Canberra, its low wings, curved walls and tall flagpole mast, with the ring road and parkland around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Parliament House Canberra
Parliament House in Canberra is where the Parliament of Australia meets, and it also holds the core of the executive. Inside are the cabinet room and the prime minister's offices. The building sits at the National Triangle's southern tip, on and under Capital Hill, ringed by the State Circle. Mitchell/Giurgola & Thorp Architects designed it, and a joint venture of Concrete Constructions and John Holland built it. The Federal Parliament had sat in Old Parliament House from 1927, and left it in 1988. Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the new building on May 9, 1988.
Entries to the design competition numbered 329, from 29 countries. The winner was the Philadelphia-based firm Mitchell/Giurgola, with the Italian-born architect Romaldo Giurgola directing the on-site work. Their plan put most of the building underground beneath Capital Hill and crowned it with a huge spire that carries a big Australian flag; the spires supporting the flagpole trace the outline of the triangular capitol that Walter Burley Griffin had envisioned. Two large curved walls split the building into four quadrants, which hold the House of Representatives and the Senate, the executive wing, and a formal entrance and event space.
Building began in 1981. The aim was to finish by Australia Day, January 26, 1988, the date marking 200 years of European settlement in Australia, for an expected cost of $220 million, but it missed both the deadline and the budget. The flagpole is 81 meters (266 feet) tall and weighs 250 tonnes, made of polished stainless steel. Excavating the site removed about one million cubic meters of rock (35,000,000 cubic feet), which went into filling low-lying areas of the city.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 1050 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 | 18 mm | 1:6,563 |
| 200 mm | 22 mm | 1:5,250 |
| 256 mm | 28 mm | 1:4,102 |
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- Slim flagpole mast
- A mast of four slim legs carries the flagpole high above the roof. Print friendly adapts thin parts like these to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best printed slowly with good cooling and 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Long thin curved walls
- Two long curved walls cut through low wings that spread across the hill. A larger print keeps these thin walls and small roof features easier to read.
- One piece with the ground
- 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. 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
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 a 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. Parliament House Canberra grows with the print: about 18 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.
