How miniature works
Your place as a little piece of home. No account or shop, built with open geodata.
1. Find your place
Search by street, house number and town, or choose a prepared Dutch area. The PDOK Locatieserver helps find the right address. Your address is not published as a public place page.
2. Choose the area
Move the map to your preferred centre. The blue square becomes your model. A 12 cm model covers 600 × 600 metres; 18 cm covers 900 × 900 metres; 24 cm covers 1,200 × 1,200 metres. The scale stays at 1:5,000, so the largest size covers four times the area of the smallest.
3. Create the model
Choose “Create model” to process buildings, surfaces and terrain elevations. You see actual processing stages. New areas can take several minutes; prepared and previously generated models load faster. Missing essential data produces an error; we do not invent replacement buildings.
4. Explore and adjust colours
Drag to rotate and scroll to zoom. On a phone, rotate with one finger and zoom with two. Top view helps compare streets and buildings.
The terrain uses AHN elevations. “Actual” preserves elevation proportions; 2× and 3× exaggerate only the terrain without stretching buildings. Roof colours are estimates from aerial images. Shadows, trees and solar panels can affect them. Uncertain roofs stay neutral grey. Choose your own colours or hide layers under “Colours & layers”.
5. Download and print
Your ZIP contains the model and source credits. STL contains geometry without colours: select millimetres when importing. 3MF includes a palette and colour assignments for Orca/Snapmaker Orca. Open as a project, select your own printer and print profile, and map colour groups to your available filaments.
Up to ten colour groups do not mean ten print heads. With a four-colour printer, combine or reassign groups. Other slicers may ignore colour assignments. Generic PLA and 1.75 mm settings are placeholders, not a tuned printer profile.
Things to know
Exports are experimental and have not been validated by a complete real print. Buildings and base can overlap; some overall models are not fully closed. Check in your slicer and merge or repair parts where needed. Thin towers, small roofs and narrow surfaces may fall below printable detail size.
miniature does not generate G-code. The data describes simplified exterior shapes. Interiors, facade textures, trees and fine architectural details are often absent. The sea is simplified to NAP 0 metres, without water depth or tides.