3D print the Royal Exhibition Building
A free, printable model of the Royal Exhibition Building's central dome, corner towers and long arched wings, with the gardens, ponds and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Royal Exhibition Building
The Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Built from 1879 to 1880, it belongs to the international exhibition movement. Its address is 9 Nicholson Street, and it sits within the Carlton Gardens, on the edge of Melbourne's central business district, to the north-east. The building is 150 m (490 ft) long. It was put up for the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880–81, and the Centennial International Exhibition of 1888 was larger still. The first Parliament of Australia was opened there on May 9, 1901.
Joseph Reed, a celebrated local architect, won the public competition for the design, which drew eighteen entries. Its eclectic style mixes Byzantine, Romanesque, Lombardic and Italian Renaissance elements, in brick, timber, steel and slate, and the dome was modeled on Florence Cathedral. The plan is a Latin cross. A shorter wing runs north, and long nave-like wings run east and west of the central dome. The Great Hall was designed with an octagonal drum and dome 68 meters high and 18.3 meters across. Governor George Bowen laid the foundation stone on February 19, 1879, and the building was finished in only 18 months, opening on October 1, 1880.
Electric lighting was installed for the 1888 exhibition, which made it among the world's first buildings to be open at night. The Victorian Parliament used it for the next 26 years after 1901. During the 1956 Summer Olympics, the events there were basketball, weightlifting, wrestling and fencing for the modern pentathlon. Queen Elizabeth II conferred the title "Royal" on the building, as announced on October 1, 1980, and in 2004 it was the first building in Australia to receive UNESCO World Heritage status.
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 | 19 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 24 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 30 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Dome, towers and thin spires
- A drum and dome rise over the center, with small domed towers and thin spires at the corners. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the spires crisp, and printing slowly helps the tips.
- Long arcaded wings
- The long wings carry rows of arched windows. Print friendly adapts these small details to your print scale; a larger print or Full detail keeps more of them.
- One piece with the ground
- The Royal Exhibition Building 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 Royal Exhibition Building 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 Royal Exhibition Building 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 Royal Exhibition Building 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 Royal Exhibition Building grows with the print: about 19 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.
