3D print the Temple of Heaven
A free, printable model of the round, three-roofed hall at the Temple of Heaven and the park, paths and low buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Temple of Heaven
The Temple of Heaven is an imperial complex of Confucian religious buildings, set in the southeast of central Beijing, in Dongcheng District. Emperors of the Ming dynasty visited it, and the Qing dynasty later restored it, for yearly rites, mainly prayers to Heaven for a good harvest, along with other seasonal ceremonies. It dates from 1420, the reign of the Ming dynasty's Yongle Emperor, who was also responsible for the Forbidden City. The Jiajing and Qianlong Emperors later expanded and reconstructed it, and its present layout was largely in place by 1749.
Its Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, a circular building with a triple-gabled roof, measures 36 m (118 ft) across and 38 m (125 ft) tall and stands on three levels of marble base. It is made entirely of wood, with no nails. Lightning started a fire that burned the original building down in 1889, and the present building was rebuilt several years later. South of it stands the smaller Imperial Vault of Heaven, surrounded by the Echo Wall, and south of that lies the Circular Mound Altar, an empty round platform with three marble levels.
A square stood for Earth and a circle for Heaven, and several features of the complex express that link. The outer wall is taller and semi-circular at its north end, for Heaven, and shorter and rectangular at its south end, for Earth. Roof tiles throughout the temple are a special dark blue that stands for Heaven. The temple became a park in 1918, open to the public for the first time. It gained World Heritage status in 1998.
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 | 12 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 14 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 18 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Three tiers of steep roofs
- The hall is topped by three stacked conical roofs ending in a small finial. Print slowly with good cooling for the tip, and use layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm to keep the roof edges clean.
- Railings on a three-level base
- Thin balustrades run around each level of the round base. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail and a bigger print size keep more of them.
- One piece with the ground
- The Temple of Heaven 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 Temple of Heaven 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 Temple of Heaven 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 Temple of Heaven 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 Temple of Heaven grows with the print: about 12 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.
