3D print AO Arena
A free, printable model of AO Arena, with its broad curved roof, surrounded by large buildings, streets, railway lines and patches of water, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 12 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
12 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 broad curved roof
A large curved roof covers most of the arena, with a wall of fine vertical ribs below it. Thin layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the curve smooth. Print friendly adapts the small ribs and rooftop details.
- Tightly packed neighbors
Larger buildings crowd in around the arena on several sides. A larger print size keeps the gaps between them readable.
- One piece with the ground
AO Arena 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. AO Arena 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 AO Arena
Manchester Arena, which became AO Arena in September 2020 under a sponsorship deal with the online electricals retailer AO, stands in Manchester, England, just north of the city center, as an indoor arena. It sits partly above Manchester Victoria railway station, on air rights space, and was built without interrupting the station's operation. It has had several sponsor names over the years, starting as NYNEX Arena in 1995.
Plans for the arena arose in the 1980s, when Manchester's city center was being regenerated. Its design is credited to Austin-Smith:Lord, Ove Arup & Partners and DLA Ellerbe Beckett, and early plans also called for a glass tower that was never built. A truss measuring 105 m (344 ft) spans the roof, and reinforced concrete helps with sound insulation. Its upper levels are clad in purple-gray with green glass. It opened on July 15, 1995.
The arena was central to Manchester's Olympic bids for 1996 and 2000, and it ended up serving the 2002 Commonwealth Games. The build came to £52 million, with £35.5 million of it from government grants and £2.5 million from the European Regional Development Fund. At the opening, a crowd of 15,000 saw Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean perform, a record for an ice event. It hosts music and sports such as boxing and swimming, ranking among the world's busiest indoor arenas.
About this model
AO Arena 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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