toporama

Model name

Width (cm)

Depth (cm)

Style Plain (thin walls, most plastics) Extra sturdy (thick walls)

Surface Satellite image overlay (full-color printing)

drapes aerial imagery over the model — the preview shows it, and the download becomes a color X3D + texture zip for Shapeways' full-color materials

Tiling Tile into multiple prints

splits a large model into pieces that each fit your printer, built to assemble seamlessly

Advanced options

Location & size

North (lat)

South (lat)

East (lng)

West (lng)

alternative to placing the box on the map

Elevation granularity

Max grid points (2–2000)

higher = more detail, bigger STL, more tiles fetched

Location pins

Pin hole ø (mm)

cut through the shell; a vertical collar keeps pins upright on slopes

Vertical height & distortion

Elevation distortion

1.0 = true scale; defaults to 2 — tune live on the preview sliders

— or —

Thickness (cm)

distorts elevation so the model has this height

Distortion exponent

<1 flattens peaks, exaggerates lowlands

Show bathymetry (sea-floor depth)

Data source

Elevation source

AWS tiles lack data in some regions (e.g. China) — use Google there

Tiling overrides

Tiles across

Tiles down

force the tile grid instead of the automatic fit (blank = auto)

Min z value (model meters)

auto-computed for tiled builds; set manually only to match tiles from a separate build

Norm. min (m)

Norm. max (m)

distortion normalization pins — auto-computed for tiled builds

Building…

Model

Download STL

light direction light height