3D print the Qutb Minar
A free, printable model of the Qutb Minar and the lawns, paths and low buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Qutb Minar
The Qutb Minar is both a minaret and a victory tower, found in Mehrauli, South Delhi, India, and built during the Delhi sultanate. It is part of the Qutb complex, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it is one of the city's most frequented heritage spots. The tower is 72.5 m tall and tapers from a base diameter of 14.3 m (47 ft) to 2.7 m (9 ft) at the peak. It leans slightly more than 65 cm off vertical, a tilt regarded as within safe limits.
Qutb-ud-din Aibak began the tower after defeating Prithviraj Chauhan, who had been Delhi's last Hindu ruler before the Ghurid conquest, and it was meant to signal the start of Islamic rule in the region. Work started in 1199, but Aibak finished only the first level. Shamsuddin Iltutmish, his successor and son-in-law, finished three further stories, and later Delhi Sultanate rulers kept building. After lightning damaged the top story, Firuz Shah Tughlaq replaced it and added one more.
The tower has five stories of red and gray sandstone, and its fluted shaft carries stalactite-style bracketing beneath the balconies that cap each stage. Major Robert Smith renovated it in 1828 and added a pillared cupola above the fifth story. It came down in 1848 and was reinstalled at ground level east of the tower, where it is known as Smith's Folly. The Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, one of the monuments of the Qutb complex, is the earliest surviving mosque built by the Delhi Sultans.
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 | 20 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 25 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 31 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A slender, tapering shaft
- The tower narrows to a thin upper section. Print slowly with good cooling so the slim top stages stay clean.
- Fluting and balcony rings
- The vertical fluting and ring-like balconies are fine detail. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print, ideally with 0.12–0.16 mm layers.
- One piece with the ground
- The Qutb Minar 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. The Qutb Minar 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
The Qutb Minar 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 Qutb Minar 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. The Qutb Minar grows with the print: about 20 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.
