3D print Veer Towers
A free, printable model of Veer Towers, two leaning towers with patchwork facades standing among large curved buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Veer Towers
Veer Towers are a pair of 37-story condominium towers in Paradise, Nevada, within the CityCenter development along the Las Vegas Strip. Murphy/Jahn Architects designed the inclined buildings, and AAI Architects, Inc. was the architect of record. Each leans five degrees, the two in opposite directions, and each rises 480 ft (150 m) on a parallelogram-shaped footprint. The towers opened on July 15, 2010. CityCenter has no other all-residential property, and the 670 units are split evenly, 335 in each tower.
Columns set out like tree branches pass the load from one floor plate to the next, and post-tensioned beams help create the lean. Rebar errors found during construction were fixed by 2009 by wrapping the columns in fiberglass jackets. The towers were meant to open in December 2009 with the rest of CityCenter but were delayed. Yellow panels set into the glass exterior reflect sunlight, and the environmentally friendly design earned a LEED Gold rating, dated November 20, 2009.
Both towers display works by the artist Richard Long on their lobby walls: mud drawings called Circle of Chance and Earth. He carried mud from England's River Avon to Las Vegas, thinned it and spread it onto the walls by hand. Lighting designer Yann Kersalé programmed an LED system that lights the tower corners in subtle neon. Francisco Gonzalez Pulido of Jahn's firm designed the lobbies and public spaces, with metal and exposed concrete walls.
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 | 39 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 49 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 63 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Two leaning towers
- Both towers lean in opposite directions, so each has a slanted profile. Printing slowly and using layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm help keep the leaning edges clean.
- Patchwork facade panels
- The facades are covered in a patchwork of small panels. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- Veer Towers 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. Veer Towers 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
Veer Towers 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 Veer Towers 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. Veer Towers grows with the print: about 39 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.
