3D print the Scottish National Gallery
A free, printable model of the Scottish National Gallery, a low columned building with a skylit roof, and the gardens, paths and roads around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Scottish National Gallery
Scotland's national art gallery is the Scottish National Gallery, standing on The Mound in central Edinburgh near Princes Street. The architect William Henry Playfair designed it in a neoclassical style, and it opened its doors to visitors in 1859. Its collection of fine art is Scotland's national one, covering Scottish and international work from the start of the Renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century.
Prince Albert laid the foundation stone on August 30, 1850. At first the building was split down the middle: the east half held the exhibition galleries of the Royal Scottish Academy, and the west half held the National Gallery of Scotland. The Academy moved into the Royal Institution building in 1912. Like its neighbor, the Royal Scottish Academy building, the gallery is built to resemble an ancient Greek temple, but in the Ionic order rather than the Doric. Its plan is cruciform, and towers once planned for the corners of the central block were abandoned during construction.
A new entrance from Princes Street Gardens and an underground space opened in 2004, designed by John Miller and Partners. The Weston Link joins the space to the Royal Scottish Academy building, which was renovated. The work lasted five years and the bill came to £32 million. Among the works on display are paintings by Giambattista Tiepolo, Jacopo Bassano and Van Dyck that came from the Royal Scottish Academy, plus Raeburn's The Skating Minister and Landseer's The Monarch of the Glen.
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 | 6 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 7 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 9 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slender portico columns
- Slim columns carry the porticoes on the long and short sides. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, while Full detail keeps every column on a larger print or with a fine nozzle.
- Skylights on a flat roof
- The wide, low roof carries rows of small skylight panels. A larger print size keeps them distinct, and layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep their edges crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Scottish National Gallery 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 Scottish National Gallery 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 Scottish National Gallery 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 Scottish National Gallery 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 Scottish National Gallery grows with the print: about 6 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.
