3D print Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo
A free, printable model of Sacred Heart Cathedral and its tall spire, with the streets and low buildings of Bendigo around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo
Bendigo, a provincial city in Victoria, is home to Sacred Heart Cathedral, the cathedral church for Roman Catholics of the Diocese of Sandhurst, where the Bishop of Sandhurst has his seat. Among Australian churches it is one of the largest, and only St Patrick's and St Paul's Cathedrals, both in Melbourne, are taller. Its entry in the Victorian Heritage Register is dated September 4, 1997.
Henry Backhaus (1811–1882), who came from Paderborn in Germany and was the earliest Catholic priest on the goldfields of Bendigo, left an estate that chiefly paid for the building. In 1895 Martin Crane, the diocese's first bishop, asked architects for competing designs, and William Tappin, of Reed, Barnes and Tappin, won. The Gothic Revival design was realized in sandstone from quarries around Geelong.
Bishop & Son of London built the large pipe organ, installed late in 1905. Following a long gap, work started again in 1954 and finished in 1977. The spire was built lighter than first designed, with a steel frame under a masonry veneer, and the later works were drawn up by Bates, Smart and McCutcheon, successor to Reed, Barnes and Tappin. The cathedral is 75 meters (246 ft) long, its ceiling is 24 meters (79 ft) high, and the main spire is 87 meters (285 ft) high.
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 | 26 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 32 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 41 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Tall spire and pinnacles
- The main spire and the smaller pinnacles around it are the thinnest parts. Print slowly with good cooling; Print friendly adapts the thinnest points to the print scale, while Full detail keeps them at larger sizes.
- One piece with the ground
- Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo 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. Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo 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
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo 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 Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo 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. Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo grows with the print: about 26 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.
