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Boston CityPrint T-8 (4437822) |
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by Mark Stock (minicty) |
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Finally - you can download and 3D print the terrain and |
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buildings for any part of Boston - or all of it! These |
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1km x 1km tiles cover the entire city, and not a single |
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building is missing. |
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First, use the map at the BPDA 3D Smart Model site (link |
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below) to find your tile, then head to our Collection of |
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tiles (link below) and look for the code ("J-9" for |
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example). Finally, just download and print! We recommend |
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white PLA, 0.2mm layer heights, 4 top and 2 bottom |
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layers, and a little retraction to prevent stringing |
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between buildings. Or, if you'd like a set of printed and |
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finished tiles, please contact us for pricing. |
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The geometry is in mm, so if you print it as-is, you will |
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get a 100x100mm (4"x4") tile at 1:10000 scale. At this |
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scale, all of Boston would be 6 feet high and 7.5 feet |
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wide. If you print it 200% size, the model will be 1:5000 |
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scale and each tile will measure 200x200mm (8"x8"). If |
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you printed every tile, the resulting map would be 12.5 |
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feet high and 15 feet wide! In fact, this is being done |
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by the CityPrint project, and you can see their progress |
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at the Boston Society for Architecture Space at 290 |
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Congress St. |
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All models come with four cylindrical holes at the |
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bottom, these will perfectly accept 6mm diameter, 1mm |
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thick disc magnets when the piece is printed original |
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size. We recommend gluing two or four Neodymium magnets |
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into those spaces - the magnets cost around 20 cents each |
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from a variety of online retailers. Two will be enough to |
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stick to a refrigerator, four provides a nice, strong |
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grip. Scuff the top (glued side) of the magnet with 100 |
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grit sandpaper for better adhesion. Obviously, if you |
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print the piece at 1:5000 scale, you will need to use |
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12mm diameter by 2mm thick disc magnets. |
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While the BPDA site already has 3D models of all of the |
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terrain and building geometry in a variety of formats, |
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none of those are ready to 3D print. Those data contains |
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gaps, holes and overlaps that need to be cleaned up. We |
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did all that work so you don't have to. Just download and |
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print any tile you want at home, or contact us for |
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pricing. |
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MiniCty offers remarkably-detailed, professionally 3D |
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printed cityscapes for dozens of US and world cities, |
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using data far more detailed than you'll see in these |
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tiles. Check out our web site (link below) to see our |
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work. |
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This project would not have happened without the freely- |
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available data from the Boston Planning & Development |
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Agency (provided without warranty) and support from |
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Artists For Humanity. The work to prepare and post these |
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tiles was done by Suleiman Hussein and MiniCty founder |
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Mark Stock. |
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[BPDA 3D Smart Model site](http://www.bostonplans.org/3d- |
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data-maps/3d-smart-model/3d-data-download) |
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[Thingiverse Collection of all Boston |
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Tiles](https://www.t |
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hingiverse.com/minicty/collections/boston-city-tiles) |
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[CityPrint |
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project](https://www.architects.org/exhibitions/cityprint) |
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[Boston Planning & Development |
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Agency](http://www.bostonplans.org/) |
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[Artists For Humanity](http://afhboston.org/) |
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[MiniCty](http://minicty.com/) |
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[MiniCty on Etsy](https://www.etsy.com/shop/MiniCty) |
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Date Published: 2021-04-24 13:55:12 |
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Identifier: thingiverse-4437822 |
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