3D print the Telstra Tower
A free, printable model of the Telstra Tower, a slender concrete shaft with a wide equipment drum and lattice mast, standing above the city on Black Mountain, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Telstra Tower in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- On a 160 mm print
- 54 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
54 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.
- Tapered shaft and mast
The tower has a slender tapered shaft, a broad drum of dishes and a thin lattice mast. Print slowly with good cooling for the tall neck, and consider a larger print so the mast stays crisp.
- Two rings of windows
Two circular rows of windows wrap the public drum above the equipment galleries. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm and Full detail on a larger print keep them readable.
- One piece with the ground
The Telstra Tower 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 Telstra Tower 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 Telstra Tower
A telecommunications tower and lookout called Telstra Tower stands on Black Mountain in Canberra, Australia's capital city. It also goes by Black Mountain Tower and once bore the name Telecom Tower. Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications company, supplies the present name. The tower rises 195.2 meters (640 ft) above the summit, making it the tallest structure in Canberra. It has an indoor observation level and two outdoor viewing decks.
A feasibility study in April 1971, ordered by the Postmaster General, looked at a Black Mountain tower for both communications and visitors. It was meant to take over from a Red Hill microwave relay station and the television masts already on the mountain. Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser opened Black Mountain Tower on May 15, 1980, under the name Telecom Tower. A 1993 rebrand of the telecommunications company turned it into Telstra Tower.
Three floors hold business, sales and radio communication facilities between 30.5 and 42.7 meters. A revolving restaurant made a full turn every 81 minutes until it closed in 2013. The World Federation of Great Towers asked it to join in 1989, alongside monuments such as the CN Tower, Blackpool Tower and the Empire State Building.
About this model
The Telstra Tower is one of more than 4,900 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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