3D print St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
A free, printable model of St Patrick's Cathedral, with its tall central spire, and the lawns, streets and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
St Patrick's Cathedral (the Cathedral Basílica of Saint Patrick) belongs to the Roman Catholic Church and sits on Eastern Hill in Melbourne, Victoria. The Archdiocese of Melbourne has its cathedral church here, and Albert Street, Lansdowne Street, Gisborne Street and Cathedral Place surround the site. The Colonial Secretary of Victoria granted the land to the Church on April 1, 1851. Because Melbourne's Catholic community was almost entirely Irish at the time, it was dedicated to St Patrick, Ireland's patron saint.
Bishop Goold appointed the English architect William Wardell, who had just arrived, to design a far larger cathedral, in the Gothic style of the late thirteenth century. The style is Geometric Decorated Gothic, appearing most elaborate in the nave's big west window. The nave was finished within a decade, and its bells were blessed on November 29, 1868. The cathedral was completed, apart from its spires, under Archbishop Thomas Carr's leadership and consecrated on November 1, 1897. The spires rose higher than Wardell's first design, and they were finished alongside a new front door in 1939.
Its long axis measures 103.6 m (340 ft), the transepts span 56.4 m (185 ft), and the nave is 25.3 m (83 ft) across. The central spire rises 105 m (344 ft), while the flanking towers and spires reach 61.9 m (203 ft). The plan is a Latin cross, with its altar at the east end and a sanctuary holding seven chapels. The bluestone came from basalt deposits in nearby Footscray. It has been on the Victorian Heritage Register since August 5, 1999.
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 | 29 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 36 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 46 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A tall spire with a cross
- The central spire narrows to a thin tip with a small cross. Print slowly with good cooling, and use layers of 0.12–0.16 mm so the tip stays crisp.
- Pinnacles and buttresses
- Many small pinnacles and buttresses surround the towers and the eastern chapels. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- One piece with the ground
- St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne 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 Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne 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 Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne 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 Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne 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 Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne grows with the print: about 29 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.
