3D print the Sainte-Chapelle
A free, printable model of the Sainte-Chapelle, with its slender spire, among the buildings beside the river, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Sainte-Chapelle
The Sainte-Chapelle, or Holy Chapel, is a royal chapel in Paris, set on the Île de la Cité amid the waters of the River Seine. Until the 14th century, the palace it belonged to, the medieval Palais de la Cité, was the main home of the Kings of France. King Louis IX commissioned the chapel as a home for the relics of the Passion that he had gathered, among them the Crown of Thorns. Building took place between 1238 and 1248, and the chapel was consecrated on April 26, 1248.
The chapel has two levels of equal area, each with a different purpose. The upper level, where the relics were kept, was limited to members of the royal family and their guests, while the lower level was meant for courtiers, servants and soldiers from the palace. At 36 meters (118 ft) long and 17 meters (56 ft) wide, it is very large for a chapel, closer in scale to a number of France's great Gothic cathedrals. Building and glazing it cost 40,000 livres.
It is considered among the highest achievements of the Rayonnant period of Gothic architecture. With the neighboring Conciergerie, it is one of the only surviving buildings of the Capetian royal palace, which is part of the judicial complex called the Palais de Justice. During the French Revolution the chapel became a grain store and its spire was pulled down, yet nearly two-thirds of its original stained glass survived. The windows of the upper chapel rank among the most extensive collections of original 13th-century stained glass anywhere.
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 | 21 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 26 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 33 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A slender spire on the roof
- A thin spire rises from the middle of the roof. Print it slowly with good cooling, and use 0.12–0.16 mm layers to keep the point crisp.
- Pinnacles around tall windows
- Small pinnacles and narrow buttresses line the walls. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps every one on a larger print or with a fine nozzle.
- 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 Sainte-Chapelle 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 Sainte-Chapelle 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 Sainte-Chapelle 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 Sainte-Chapelle grows with the print: about 21 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.
