3D print the Thomas & Mack Center
A free, printable model of the Thomas & Mack Center, a wide round arena with an arched entrance beside a neighboring hall, ringed by roads, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Thomas & Mack Center
The Thomas & Mack Center serves as a multipurpose arena for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and stands on its campus in Paradise, Nevada. The UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team, a member of the Mountain West Conference, calls it home. The building opened its doors in summer 1983, and the gala grand opening on December 16, 1983 featured Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross and Dean Martin. Its name comes from Jerome D. Mack and E. Parry Thomas, two prominent bankers in Nevada. They donated the first funds for its feasibility and land studies.
Boxing cards, concerts, music festivals and conventions all take place at the venue. The National Finals Rodeo has been held there every December since 1985. The 2007 NBA All-Star Game was played there, the first time the game was held in a city with no NBA franchise. In 2001, a smaller arena called Cox Pavilion was added, and the two arenas are directly connected.
The arena's nickname, the Shark Tank, comes from UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian, known as Tark the Shark, who won a national championship in 1990. A major renovation of the interior and exterior took place in 1999. The ArenaBowl of the Arena Football League was played there in 2005 and 2006, the first two staged at a neutral site arena. In 1984 the arena saw Kareem Abdul-Jabbar surpass Wilt Chamberlain's career points record.
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 | 7 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 9 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 12 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A thin arched entrance
- The curved lattice arch over the main steps is slim and carries lettering. Print friendly adapts thin parts like this to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- A wide, shallow roof
- One broad roof covers the whole arena, with fine ribs and a few small boxes on top. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep those details crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Thomas & Mack Center 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 Thomas & Mack 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 Thomas & Mack 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 Thomas & Mack 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 Thomas & Mack Center grows with the print: about 7 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.
