3D print the Santa Cruz Zeppelin Hangar
A free, printable model of the Santa Cruz Zeppelin Hangar, a very long, narrow hangar with a ridged roof, with the airfield and low buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Santa Cruz Zeppelin Hangar
The Santa Cruz Zeppelin Hangar belongs to Santa Cruz Air Force Base, a Brazilian Air Force base in the Santa Cruz district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The site began as Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport, built to serve the Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg, two rigid airships. Deutsche Luft Hansa flew regularly between Germany and Brazil from 1931 to 1937, with Rio de Janeiro the end of the line.
Because of that route, Luftschiffbau Zeppelin chose to create its own facility, moving operations away from Campo dos Afonsos Airport. The new airport was inaugurated on December 26, 1936. The complex held an airfield, a hydrogen factory and a rail branch to the main line serving the city, 54 km from downtown Rio de Janeiro, plus the hangar and other buildings. The hangar was built to house rigid airships, and few such hangars survive anywhere in the world. The hangar received National Heritage Site listing on March 14, 1999.
On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg disaster occurred in New Jersey, at Lakehurst Air Naval Station. On June 17, 1937, Luftschiffbau Zeppelin asked the Brazilian Government to suspend its services. The facility became a Brazilian Air Force base when it was commissioned on February 12, 1942, and it was renamed Santa Cruz Air Force Base on January 16, 1943.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 650 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 | 16 mm | 1:4,063 |
| 200 mm | 20 mm | 1:3,250 |
| 256 mm | 26 mm | 1:2,539 |
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- A long, narrow shell
- The hangar is a long, narrow shell with tall, slim window strips along its sides. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the strips crisp, and a larger print size keeps them readable.
- Slim framework at the ends
- Thin framework members sit above the end doors. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, while Full detail keeps them on a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- The Santa Cruz Zeppelin Hangar 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 Santa Cruz Zeppelin Hangar 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 Santa Cruz Zeppelin Hangar 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 Santa Cruz Zeppelin Hangar 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 Santa Cruz Zeppelin Hangar grows with the print: about 16 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.
