July 11, 2023
Description
Update 2022-04-09: Additional countries now available as an add-on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5341945
This is a topographic puzzle of continental Europe. Scale is 1:5'000'000 and vertical exaggeration is 10x. Small states (Andorra, Lichtenstein, Vatican, San Marino, Monaco) were fused to their neighbors. The British Isles as well as the nordic countries are not included.
Elevation data was taken from SRTM 4.1 (https://www.un-spider.org/links-and-resources/data-sources/digital-elevation-model-srtm-41-cgiar-csi)
The country borders were taken from: http://tapiquen-sig.jimdo.com
The picture shows my 4 color print at 55% xy scale. I used 110% z scale to have a total vertical exaggeration of 20x. With these settings even very flat countries like the Netherlands and Denmark show some elevation pattern.
0.175 mm layer height, 0.4 mm nozzle, PLA.
For maximum detail:
print as large as you can
use the lowest layer thickness where your printer prints reliably
use small nozzle diameter for additional detail in xy
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial
Schweizermaker
