3D print Pha That Luang
A free, printable model of Pha That Luang, a stepped stupa with a tall central spire inside a square wall, with low buildings and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Pha That Luang
In Vientiane, the capital of Laos, stands Pha That Luang, a Buddhist stupa covered in gold. Its Lao name is rendered in English as "Great Stupa". It is believed that Emperor Ashoka sent missionaries from the Mauryan Empire, carrying a sacred relic thought to be the Buddha's breastbone, which they enshrined in the stupa. Invasions of the area led to reconstructions of the stupa, including one in the 1930s.
King Setthathirat, who moved his capital to Vientiane from Luang Prabang in the 16th century, ordered the temple built in 1566. It stands about 4 km from the center of Vientiane, where Pha That Luang Road ends. Thirty smaller stupas surrounded the main one. A Dutch envoy, Gerrit van Wuysthoff, came to Vientiane in 1641, and King Sourigna Vongsa received him with ceremony at the temple.
The Thai invasion of 1828 destroyed Pha That Luang. In 1900 the French rebuilt it to match its original design, working from detailed drawings made in 1867 by Louis Delaporte, a French architect and explorer. That first attempt failed, so the stupa was redesigned and reconstructed in the 1930s. Encircling walls roughly 85 m (279 ft) long on each side hold Lao and Khmer sculptures.
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 | 13 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 17 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 21 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A ring of small spires
- Small pointed spires crowd the terraces around the central tower. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, while Full detail keeps every one on a larger print.
- A slim central finial
- The central spire tapers to a thin tip. Print slowly with good cooling, and layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the point crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Pha That Luang 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. Pha That Luang 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
Pha That Luang 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 Pha That Luang 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. Pha That Luang grows with the print: about 13 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.
