3D print Washington National Cathedral
A free, printable model of Washington National Cathedral, with its three towers, set among green grounds, paths and roads, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Washington National Cathedral
Washington National Cathedral is an Episcopal Church cathedral in Washington, D.C., and its formal name refers to Saints Peter and Paul. In the city's northwest quadrant, it occupies a spot at Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues. Its Neo-Gothic design follows English Gothic architecture from the late fourteenth century. The site is a wooded hill, chosen in 1896, that rises about 120 meters (approximately 400 feet) above the Potomac River.
The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation built the cathedral under a charter from Congress dated January 6, 1893. On September 29, 1907, the foundation stone was laid, with President Theodore Roosevelt in attendance, along with a crowd numbering over 20,000. Construction came in several phases, with interruptions lasting years, and the cathedral was finished 83 years after that first stone, on September 29, 1990, with President George H. W. Bush present.
George Frederick Bodley, a British Gothic Revival architect, was chosen as head architect and designed the master plan. Bodley died in 1907, and Henry Vaughan, his partner, then revised the original design. After World War I, the Boston firm Frohman, Robb and Little took over the building work, and Philip Hubert Frohman and his partners added the central tower's carillon section and enlarged the west façade. Only one other church building in the United States is larger.
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 | 26 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 32 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 41 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Open towers with corner pinnacles
- The three towers have open arched tops and small pinnacles at the corners. Print friendly adapts these thin parts to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print or with a fine nozzle.
- Slim buttresses along the nave
- A row of narrow buttresses runs down the sides of the long roof. A bigger print size keeps them sturdier, and 0.12–0.16 mm layers keep their edges crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Washington National Cathedral 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. Washington National Cathedral 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
Washington National Cathedral 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 Washington National Cathedral 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. Washington National Cathedral grows with the print: about 26 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.
