3D print the Wiener Riesenrad
A free, printable model of the Wiener Riesenrad, with the low buildings, paths and green areas around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 65 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 17 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
65 m of the Wiener Riesenrad, 17 mm on your shelf
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 fan of fine spokes
The wheel has a great many thin spokes. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps every one, best on a larger print with a fine nozzle.
- A tall circle on an A-frame
The rim and the small gondolas around it are slender. Print slowly with good cooling, and use 0.12–0.16 mm layers to keep the outline crisp.
- One piece with the ground
The Wiener Riesenrad 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 Wiener Riesenrad 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 Wiener Riesenrad
The Wiener Riesenrad, also called simply the Riesenrad, stands at the entrance to Vienna's Prater amusement park, which lies in Leopoldstadt, the city's 2nd district. This Ferris wheel is 64.75 m (212 ft) tall. It was built in 1897 for Emperor Franz Josef I's Golden Jubilee, and it is among the earliest Ferris wheels ever made. Many people regard it as a symbol of both the district and the city, and it ranks among the most popular tourist attractions in Vienna.
Harry Hitchins and Hubert Cecil Booth, both British engineers, designed it, and Lieutenant Walter Basset Bassett, an English engineer in the Royal Navy, carried out the construction. Originally it carried 30 gondolas. A permit to demolish it was issued in 1916, but money to do the job was lacking, and the wheel survived. After heavy damage in World War II, the rebuilt wheel received just 15 gondolas as replacements. Its spokes are steel cables under tension, and a cable running around the rim drives it through a mechanism beneath the base.
When it went up in 1897, the Riesenrad had taller rivals: a US Ferris wheel of 80.4 m (264 ft), built in 1893 and demolished in 1906, and the 94 m (308 ft) Great Wheel in England, built in 1895 and demolished in 1907. The 100 m (328 ft) Grande Roue de Paris of 1900 was higher still. Once that Paris wheel came down in 1920, the Riesenrad took the title of tallest extant Ferris wheel in the world and held it for 65 years, until Japan's 85 m (279 ft) Technostar was built in 1985.
About this model
The Wiener Riesenrad is one of more than 4,300 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.
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