3D print St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney
A free, printable model of St Mary's Cathedral, a long Gothic church with twin spires and a central tower, set in green parkland with winding paths, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney
Sydney's Catholic archdiocese has its seat at St Mary's Cathedral, a basilica. On College Street, close to the eastern edge of the Sydney central business district, it lies in the City of Sydney area of New South Wales, Australia. William Wardell designed the cathedral, which was built between 1866 and 1928. Pope Pius XI elevated it to a Minor Basilica on August 4, 1932, and it was added to the State Heritage Register of New South Wales on September 3, 2004.
Father John Therry arrived in 1820, along with Father Conolly, to minister officially to Roman Catholics in Australia. He claimed that on the day he arrived he saw a vision: a powerful church in golden stone, to be dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, with twin spires lifting above Sydney. The twin-spired church he described was realized only after three intermediate buildings and 180 years. The first St Mary's, whose foundation stone Governor Macquarie laid on October 29, 1821, was destroyed by fire on June 29, 1865. Archbishop Polding then approached the architect William Wardell, who had studied under Augustus Welby Pugin, and gave him full freedom over the design.
Archbishop Polding laid the foundation stone in 1868 for a huge, ambitious building with three towers and a broad nave and aisle. Archbishop Vaughan, his successor, led the dedication Mass on September 8, 1882. In 1913 the foundation stone of the nave was laid by Archbishop Kelly, who dedicated it in 1928, in time for the 29th International Eucharistic Congress. The façade's two squared-off towers got their spires in 2000, with the help of a government grant marking the new millennium.
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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- Slender twin spires
- Two tall, slender spires stand at the front, and small pinnacles line the roofline. Print friendly adapts these thin parts to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best printed slowly with 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Rows of small gables
- The long nave and transepts carry rows of small gables and pointed windows. A larger print keeps these small repeating details easier to read.
- One piece with the ground
- St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney 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. St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney 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
St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney 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 St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney 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. St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney 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.
