3D print Westward Ho
A free, printable model of the Westward Ho, a stepped high-rise topped by a tall tower, with the streets and low buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Westward Ho
The Westward Ho is a 16-story high-rise in Phoenix, Arizona, standing 63 m (208 ft) to its roof. It was Arizona's tallest building for over 30 years, until the Meridian Bank Tower was finished in 1960. It opened on December 15, 1928, and served mainly as a hotel until it closed on April 7, 1980. It later became subsidized housing, converted by new owners for elderly and mobility-impaired residents.
The project was announced in spring 1927 as the Roosevelt Hotel. Fisher, Lake & Traver were its architects, and the same team had designed the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in California. Work stopped in early 1928 when just six stories had been built, and in April the Los Angeles firm J. V. McNeil Company won the contract to finish the building. It was renamed Westward Ho before it opened.
Inside were offices and restaurants, among them Top of the Ho on the 16th floor, and on the 2nd floor the Turquoise Room hosted many wedding receptions. The Thunderbird Room, a large convention center beside the hotel, could seat 1,600. A 5-story annex was added west of the original structure in 1948. A steel tower of 240 ft (73 m) and an antenna of 40 ft (12 m) went up on top in 1949 to broadcast KPHO-TV channel 5, Phoenix's first television station, taking the total height to 488 ft (149 m). The building gained National Register of Historic Places recognition in 1982.
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 | 40 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 50 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 64 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A lattice tower on the roof
- A slim lattice tower and a thin mast rise from the roof. Print friendly adapts these thin parts to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print, printed slowly with good cooling.
- Stepped tiers
- The building steps in as it rises. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the setbacks and window rows crisp.
- 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. Westward Ho 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
Westward Ho 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 Westward Ho 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. Westward Ho grows with the print: about 40 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.
