3D print the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple
A free, printable model of the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple and the green ground, water tank and low buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple
In the hills of Tirumala, in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh, India, stands the Venkateswara Swami Temple, a Hindu temple that is also called the Tirumala, Tirupati or Tirupati Balaji Temple. Venkateswara, a form of Vishnu, is the deity to whom it is dedicated; believers hold that he came down to earth to rescue humanity from the trials of Kali Yuga. The temple's administration rests with the TTD (Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams), an autonomous body that falls under the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
The Tirumala Hills, part of the Seshachalam range, reach about 980 m (3,220 ft) in elevation and have seven peaks. The temple lies on the seventh, Venkatadri, beside the holy water tank Sri Swami Pushkarini, on its southern bank, which is why it is also called the "Temple of Seven Hills." The sanctum, called Ananda Nilayam (the Garbhagriha), holds the presiding deity, who faces east.
Built in the Dravidian architecture style, the temple is believed to have developed over time starting from 300 CE. It is traditionally credited to the Tondaiman rulers, and the Cholas, Pandyas and Vijayanagar dynasties later expanded it. The first recorded endowment came from the Pallava queen Samavai in 966 CE. Most of its present wealth and size came under the Vijayanagara Empire, and donations of gold and jewels from the 16th-century emperor Krishnadevaraya enabled the roof of the inner shrine to be gilded.
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 | 6 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 8 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 10 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Tiered gateway towers
- The two gateway towers are stacked in many small tiers and are the finest detail. Print friendly adapts those tiers to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on larger prints, and 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers keep them crisp.
- Domed shrine and thin pole
- The small domed shrine and the thin pole beside the courtyard are the most delicate upright parts. A larger print size keeps them from disappearing, and slower printing helps.
- One piece with the ground
- The Tirumala Venkateswara Temple 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 Tirumala Venkateswara Temple 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 Tirumala Venkateswara Temple 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 Tirumala Venkateswara Temple 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 Tirumala Venkateswara Temple grows with the print: about 6 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.
