3D print the Scotiabank Saddledome
A free, printable model of the Scotiabank Saddledome and the roads, open ground and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Scotiabank Saddledome
The Scotiabank Saddledome is an indoor arena used for many kinds of events, at the southeast end of downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada, inside Stampede Park. Completed in 1983, it replaced the Stampede Corral as the Calgary Flames' NHL home and hosted ice hockey and figure skating during the 1988 Winter Olympics. Concerts, conferences, other sporting championships and Calgary Exhibition and Stampede events also take place there. The City of Calgary owns the arena.
It first went by Olympic Saddledome, a name drawn from a hat of saddle-themed suggestions after a naming contest. Of 1,270 entries, 735 involved the word Saddle. During a major renovation in 1994–95 it became the Canadian Airlines Saddledome, and in 2000 it became the Pengrowth Saddledome. In October 2010 Scotiabank signed on as title sponsor, and the arena took the name Scotiabank Saddledome.
Graham McCourt Architects designed the arena, and building work began on July 29, 1981. Its roof is a reverse hyperbolic paraboloid, a shape similar to that of the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, built in 1971. That form gives every seat a view free of pillars and cuts the interior volume by a third compared with traditional arenas, which lowers heating, lighting and maintenance costs. The floating roof can also flex with the city's frequent temperature swings.
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 | 12 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 15 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 20 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Finely ribbed saddle roof
- The curved roof is marked by many fine ribs. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps every line, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Slim piers around the base
- The roof rises above a ring of slim piers and small towers. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm and a slower print speed help these small parts come out cleanly.
- One piece with the ground
- The Scotiabank Saddledome 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 Scotiabank Saddledome 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 Scotiabank Saddledome 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 Scotiabank Saddledome 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 Scotiabank Saddledome grows with the print: about 12 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.
