3D print the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
A free, printable model of the Udvar-Hazy Center's long hangar and its ribbed barrel-vaulted wing, with the lawns, ponds and roads around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center serves as an annex to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, standing beside Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia. It displays aircraft, spacecraft and rockets that are too big for the museum's main building on the National Mall. Among its exhibits are the Space Shuttle Discovery, the Boeing 367-80 and the Enola Gay, plus an SR-71 Blackbird and a Concorde. The center opened on December 15, 2003.
Steven F. Udvar-Házy, who emigrated from Hungary and co-founded the International Lease Finance Corporation, gave the Smithsonian $65 million in October 1999, which made the 71,000 m2 (760,000 square feet) facility possible. The firm Hellmuth, Obata, and Kassabaum, designer of the main museum building too, planned it, and Hensel Phelps Construction Co. built it after 15 years of preparation. Two large hangars hold the exhibits: the 27,286.3 m2 (293,707 square feet) Boeing Aviation Hangar and the 4,930.1 m2 (53,067 square feet) James S. McDonnell Space Hangar.
A private taxiway links the center directly to the airport runways, so some aircraft can be flown straight to the facility instead of being taken apart and moved over the ground. The Donald D. Engen Observation Tower gives a view of landing operations at the airport next door. A wing added in 2010 and funded by Airbus holds the museum's restoration and conservation work, with observation windows for watching some of it. The Airbus IMAX Theater is part of the facility too.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 850 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 | 10 mm | 1:5,313 |
| 200 mm | 13 mm | 1:4,250 |
| 256 mm | 16 mm | 1:3,320 |
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- Ribbed barrel-vault roof
- One wing has a curved roof made of many narrow ribs. Print friendly adapts them to your print scale; Full detail keeps every rib, best for a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Slim tower and flat roofs
- A slender tower with a round cab stands beside the hangars, which have flat roofs with small details. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the tower tip crisp, and a larger print keeps the rooftop details.
- 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 Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 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 Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 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 Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 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 Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center grows with the print: about 10 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.
