3D print Portland Head Light
A free, printable model of Portland Head Light, with its tapering tower and the long house beside it, and the grassy headland and water around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Portland Head Light
In Cape Elizabeth, Maine, stands Portland Head Light, a lighthouse of historic importance. The station occupies a headland at the mouth of the main shipping channel leading into Portland Harbor, in Casco Bay on the Gulf of Maine. It was the U.S. government's first lighthouse, completed in 1791, and it is the oldest in Maine. The station switched to automated operation in August 1989, and the old keeper's house holds a maritime museum inside Fort Williams Park.
George Washington ordered construction to start in 1787 and set up a $1,500 fund. He engaged two masons from Falmouth, Jonathan Bryant and John Nichols. The plans specified a tower 58 feet tall, but once it was finished the masons climbed it and saw that the headlands would hide the light from the south, so 20 more feet were added. The builders used rubblestone, and lamps burned whale oil at first.
During the American Civil War, when raids on shipping near Portland Harbor became commonplace, the tower gained another 20 feet so ships at sea could sight it sooner. After Halfway Rock Light was built, the tower was shortened by 6.1 m (20 feet) in 1883, and following complaints from mariners its former height was restored in 1885. A keepers' house was built in 1891. In 1927, Edward Hopper painted the lighthouse, and the light station joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
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 | 8 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 11 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slim lantern room and railing
- A thin gallery railing and a small cap crown the tower. Print slowly with good cooling so the top stays clean, and use Print friendly to adapt it to the print scale.
- Chimneys and small windows
- The house beside the tower has small chimneys and many small windows. Full detail keeps them on a larger print, ideally with 0.12–0.16 mm layers.
- One piece with the ground
- Portland Head Light 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. Portland Head Light 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
Portland Head Light 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 Portland Head Light 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. Portland Head Light 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.
