3D print the Sydney Observatory
A free, printable model of the Sydney Observatory on Observatory Hill, with the surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 6 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
6 mm tall on a 160 mm print
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.
- Watch the roofline
An observatory is read by its roofline. Print at a larger size or keep Full detail so the roof and upper walls survive slicing.
- One piece with the ground
The Sydney Observatory 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 Sydney Observatory 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 the Sydney Observatory
Sydney Observatory stands on Observatory Hill, on Upper Fort Street in Millers Point, an inner-city part of Sydney, Australia. It is heritage-listed and works as a weather station, an astronomical observatory, a science museum, an education facility and a venue for functions. William Weaver supplied the plans and Alexander Dawson supervised the work; Charles Bingemann and Ebenezer Dewar built it between 1857 and 1859.
The site has hosted a defense fort, a semaphore station, a time ball station, a weather station, an observatory and windmills. A fort on Windmill Hill, dating from the early 19th century, grew into an observatory within the next 100 years. The site was added to New South Wales's state heritage register on December 22, 2000.
The observatory is a working museum. Its tower carried a time ball that dropped to mark the correct time for the city and harbor. In the evening, visitors can look at stars and planets through its modern 40-centimeter (16 in) Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, and through a 29-centimeter (11 in) refractor from 1874, the oldest telescope still in regular use in Australia.
About this model
The Sydney Observatory is one of more than 4,400 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.
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