3D print Sheffield Island Light
A free, printable model of Sheffield Island Light, a stone lighthouse with a steep roof and a small lantern, and the shoreline and water around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Sheffield Island Light
Sheffield Island Light, a historic lighthouse in Norwalk, Connecticut, stands at the southern tip of the Norwalk Islands. It marks the western side of the Norwalk River's mouth on northern Long Island Sound. Captain Robert Sheffield bought the island, then called White Island, in 1804. Four of its 53 acres (21 ha) went to the United States government in 1826, sold by his son-in-law Gershom Smith so that a lighthouse could be built. Smith served as first keeper of the light, which burned oil and was finished in 1828.
In 1868 a Victorian limestone (masonry) dwelling with a 44-foot (13 m) light tower in its gable took the place of the original 30-foot (9.1 m) tower. The fourth-order Fresnel lens installed in 1857 moved into it; with its focal plane standing 51 feet (16 m) up from the water, the light was visible for over 12 miles (19 km). Several other lighthouses share this design, among them Morgan Point and Great Captain Island in Connecticut, Block Island North in Rhode Island, and Plum Island and Old Field Point Light in New York.
Greens Ledge Light, built in 1900 to the west, was better placed to warn ships of rocks and shoals. The Sheffield Island light ceased operating in 1902. In 1986 the Norwalk Seaport Association bought the building to renovate and restore it. The National Register of Historic Places listed it in 1989.
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 | 4 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 5 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 6 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Lantern and gallery railing
- A small lantern with a railed gallery sits in the gable. Print friendly adapts thin railings to the print scale; Full detail keeps them as modeled, which works best on larger prints.
- Tiny stone and window details
- Stone courses, arched windows and chimneys cover this small building. A bigger print size and 0.12–0.16 mm layers keep them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Sheffield Island Light 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. Sheffield Island Light 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
Sheffield Island Light 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 Sheffield Island Light 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. Sheffield Island Light grows with the print: about 4 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.
