3D print the United States National Library of Medicine
A free, printable model of the National Library of Medicine and the surrounding buildings of the National Institutes of Health campus, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 5 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
5 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.
- A low, wide block
The library is broad and low, so the model is mostly long wall and flat roof. A larger print size is the surest way to keep those surfaces and their corners clean.
- Layers on long flat walls
Long flat walls show layer lines more plainly than small details do. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the corners and the top edge tidy.
- One piece with the ground
The United States National Library of Medicine 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 United States National Library of Medicine 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 United States National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine is run by the United States federal government and is the largest medical library in the world. It is one of the institutes of the National Institutes of Health, at Bethesda in Maryland. Its holdings run past seven million items, from books and journals to manuscripts, technical reports, microfilms, photographs and images about medicine and related sciences, and among them are some of the oldest and rarest works in the world.
Its forerunner was the library of the Army Surgeon General, established in 1836. From 1866 to 1887 it shared quarters with the Army Medical Museum in Ford's Theatre, once performances there ended after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In 1956 control moved out of the Department of Defense and into the Public Health Service, when Congress and President John F. Kennedy renamed it the National Library of Medicine, and in 1962 it moved into the building in Bethesda.
Limestone forms the building, which was planned to keep the collection safe from adversarial threats, and 50 mi (80 km) of shelves lie underground. Index Medicus has appeared since 1879. MEDLINE dates from the 1970s, and the National Center for Biotechnology Information from 1988, MedlinePlus from 1998, and ClinicalTrials.gov and PubMed Central from 2000.
About this model
The United States National Library of Medicine 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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