Changelog
New
- Every example has a page of its own, and Help can be read on the site without opening the app
Alignment guides on the map (or G) draw lines through the middle of the area and at its thirds, to center it on a landmark or line it up with a street- Warsaw example, LiDAR only: the Old Town, the Palace of Culture and Varso, and the Vistula on one 175 mm print
- Nine examples: Montreal, São Paulo, Rotterdam, Iguazu Falls, Malbork Castle, Monza, Silverstone, Albert Park, and Zandvoort
Join buildings closer than under Layers > Buildings, for small-scale prints, fills gaps between buildings too narrow to print so a block prints as one piece, and every building keeps its own shape and height
Improved
- LiDAR from surveys downloaded as whole tiles is decoded once per tile however many parts of the model read it at a time, and the tallest buildings are measured side by side
New
- The arrow keys move the area on the map in small steps, 5 times as far with Shift and a pixel at a time with Ctrl (Option on a Mac), and the map follows it at the edge of the view
- Las Vegas Strip example from map data at 0.1 mm/m over eight plates, with gold towers and turquoise water
- Eight examples: Bern, Quebec City, Talloires, Mont Blanc, Neuschwanstein, Alhambra, Yas Marina, and Road America, including three six-plate prints
- Six examples: Carcassonne, Long Beach, Porto, Pikes Peak, Tokyo's Imperial Palace, and Interlagos
- Eight examples: Bruges, Edinburgh, Dune du Pilat, Diamond Head, Hampton Court, the Taj Mahal, Versailles, and Mount Panorama
- Four color themes:
Amethyst, Crimson, and Mocha, like Blueprint in purple, red, and brown, and Halloween, with mandarin orange streets and pumpkin orange trees on black
Add a sports field in the editor: football, soccer, baseball, a running track, and 7 more at their real size, with their lines and end zones or infield in colors of their own. On a LiDAR only model it lines up with a stadium's floor, fills it with grass, and is set into the floor so its edge is clean, and a baseball field faces center field from its pitcher's mound- Sports field examples: Cincinnati's ballpark and football stadium, and Parc des Princes and Stade Jean-Bouin
Bring raised parts down to the ground for one building in the editor, to leave a skybridge raised or build one down- Sub-types for Snow & ice:
Glaciers and Satellite snow & ice, each with its own color, height, and placement
Changed
Paved under Parks and land cover is off by default- Opening an example keeps the printer and file format
- Runways print whole where a road, path, or railway is mapped across them
Generate model is off for a LiDAR only model where the Survey list found no survey, with the reason under it
Fixed
- Gaps and grass left in airport paving after removing a road over it in the editor
- Outlines and boxes on LiDAR only models standing as tall as the seating, trees, or cars inside them, far over the height set
- Route edits from a settings file or a backup removing or changing the wrong route
- The place search freezing on long pasted text
- The real area in
Area counting the rectangle around a circle, hexagon, or rounded rectangle
- Roads under the terrain in a download made while the first terrain brush stroke went in
- Settings files dropped one after another loading the older one last
- The examples dialog staying on
Loading the examples...
- Google sign-in windows staying open on a line of text after too many requests from one network
New
Print water on its own plates under Layers > Water: the water prints on a thin sheet the model sits on, so the model needs one color fewerSmall water under Layers > Water, to cut ponds and streams through the base along with the rest of the water- 11 more fonts for text, including Copperplate CC, a stencil, a typewriter, a script, and a blackletter, each shown in itself in the
Font list
- The New York City Marathon under
Try a sample route, with its example's settings to fit it on 170 mm, and as an example
- A map of where LiDAR is available in Help's
LiDAR topic
Improved
- Shorter, clearer text in the download dialog, tooltips, hints, and warnings
- A dot beside each changed setting, not only its layer and section
- Warnings in the 3D view can be dismissed until the model is generated again, and on a phone they sit above the tools
Fixed
- A thin base lifting off the bed with
Cut through the base and Rest on the water
- Docks mapped as basins, like London's West India Docks, left out with
Skip ponds, fountains, and basins
- Water in a custom color showing lower than it prints with
Print water on its own plates
- Bridges hanging off the edge of the model with no pier under their ends
- Typing in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean picking a place, racetrack, or setting before the word was done
- Hebrew text printing signs on the wrong side of numbers, like %50, and points beside their letters
- A sample route picked again being added a second time
- The printed size on the map leaving out the
Border rim
Clear it in the editor offering to delete a drawn road that crosses the model- Arrow keys and Delete changing a route while a button in the top bar had the focus
- A damaged FIT file importing part of its route with nothing said
New
Before smoothing for the Restore brush, to paint back detail that smoothing took off a LiDAR only model
Improved
- Walls, sloped roofs, and domes in LiDAR models come out flat and smooth instead of ribbed
- Trees in LiDAR only models print as rounded crowns instead of spiky columns
- Finer detail in LiDAR only models where the survey is dense enough, like San Francisco and Strasbourg
- Safari and Firefox use much less memory while building a LiDAR only model
- Less memory used while reading the map data, which closed the page on some iPhones even for small areas
- On an iPhone or iPad, the app asks before generating with LiDAR buildings, which can run out of memory there, and the note after a crash says what to try
Changed
Rounded trees are gone from LiDAR only models, and models that used them open with Natural
Fixed
- The page crashing when translated, or in Chrome on an iPhone
- Bands of plain ground where one LiDAR survey hands over to the next, like in downtown Cincinnati
- No LiDAR in Canada, the Netherlands, or from USGS's newest surveys while their search services are down
- Rhineland-Palatinate LiDAR tiles that couldn't be read, and tiles missing along its borders
- LiDAR that kept failing after a survey's server came back from maintenance
- Shapes on roads cut into steep ground hanging over the road
New
- More circuits in
Racetracks, including NASCAR ovals, the Nürburgring Nordschleife, the Isle of Man TT, Pikes Peak, and street circuits like Chicago and Macau
LiDAR only presets, like Willis Tower, Oracle Park, La Défense, and the Matterhorn- Over 20 more examples, including stadiums, Cologne Cathedral, Niagara Falls, and Mount Everest on several plates
Featured examples, with some of the best from every tier- Strasbourg's own 2025 LiDAR, about ten times as dense as IGN's there
Improved
Examples beside the Area search, with search and filters by place, feature, and tier- Racetrack laps are traced from OpenStreetMap, so they follow each track as it is today
- Settings and tools that need
Maker or Pro to download say so beside them
- LiDAR from Catalonia, Salzburg, Navarra, and Poland loads from outside Europe too
Fixed
- Waterfalls like Iguazu and Victoria Falls printing as a cliff of terrain
- Routes with small spikes at junctions
- LiDAR from Illinois, Brussels, and Texas failing to load
- Bridges missing from LiDAR only models of Zurich and Geneva
- Creases in the terrain where only coarse elevation data reaches, like Ireland's hills
- Broken route files freezing the page
New
- Terrain from Mapterhorn, with national elevation models as fine as 1 m in much of the US, Europe, and Japan
Elevation data under Layers > Terrain, to switch back to AWS Terrain Tiles- Rivers in steep ground run downhill and over their falls, with
Run rivers downhill and Smooth steps in rivers under Layers > Water
Changed
- Routes are 1 mm wide by default, so they cover the road they follow
Racetracks print at the roads' width and height by default
Fixed
- Saved edits lost when the browser's storage was nearly full
- KMZ files importing an overlay instead of the route
- The site not starting in a browser that blocks its storage
- Turning a phone cutting off the model in the 3D view
- Height bands losing their colors on round and hexagon areas
New
Sub-types for roads, airports, and surfaces, like alleys, steps, taxiways, beaches, and vineyards, each with its own color and height- Terrain brushes for map data models:
Smooth, Flatten, and Restore
- Click something in the 3D view to go to its settings in the sidebar
Reset beside Search settings, and a dot beside each section with changed settingsRunning tracks under Parks, off by defaultCustom terrain resolution, and up to 128 million cells for LiDAR only models- Thirteen more examples, including six hex tiles, the Mosel's vineyards, and Meteor Crater
Improved
- Smoother circles, rounded corners, cylinders, and pins
- A dropped connection is waited for instead of failing the model
Satellite land cover fills in cropland as Fields
Changed
Skip ponds, fountains, and basins is on by defaultRunways and Green areas moved into Sub-types, keeping their settings and colors
Fixed
- Parked planes printing as buildings at airports
- LiDAR only models across two surveys coming out half blank or flooded
- iPhones and iPads zooming in when typing in a field
New
- Free, Maker, Pro, and Commercial tiers, which lock some downloads but none of the tools
Sign in with an emailed code or Google, to redeem a code from a MakerWorld pledgeTiers and accounts in HelpResolution for LiDAR only models, from Standard to FinestRest on the water under Model > Structures in water
Improved
- LiDAR only models start on the finest
Resolution the device has the memory for
New
Racetracks under Routes, with laps of 147 circuits from Formula 1, MotoGP, IndyCar, and more- Four more sample routes: Lake Bled, Royal Mile & Arthur's Seat, Imperial Palace Run, and Bondi Coastal Walk
- Four more color themes:
Sakura, Neon, Blueprint, and Circuit
- Twenty more examples, including the pyramids at Giza, Santorini, and the whole Nürburgring on four plates
Improved
- Routes print at one width all along, and keep their own color where they meet buildings or water
- When the area fills the map, dragging inside it pans the map
Help is split into searchable topics- Models too big for a phone's graphics memory wait for
Show it anyway instead of crashing
Changed
- Trees are on by default
Bambu Studio project is only offered for Bambu Lab printers- Prusa printers are listed with and without the MMU3
Fixed
- Bambu projects for the H2D, H2C, and X2D opening with no purging volumes
- Downloads reaching into the P1S's filament cutter corner
- Small islands in the sea, like the volcano in Santorini's caldera, coming out under water
- Spikes hundreds of meters tall over Philadelphia's Center City in LiDAR models
- Trees left standing as spikes in LiDAR only models with
Trees set to Off
- Editor tools out of reach on small phones
- The map going blank for good after the graphics crashed
New
Fairways & greens under Green areas, to print a golf course's holes in their own colorRunways under Road typesAirfields under Green areas, for the grass around runways
Improved
- Terrain
Resolution can be typed up to 2,048 cells for large prints
Fixed
- Jagged banks along rivers, canals, and lakes, worst at
High and Extra high terrain
- Gaps in LiDAR only water beside piers, docks, and moored boats
- Walls showing through water as thin lines in the 3D view
New
- Examples of models that open with their settings, under
Browse examples in Presets and on their own page
Improved
Share in the top bar on phones and tablets tooHelp links to each of its sections, the privacy page, the terms, and a contact address- The download message says when there are warnings, with
Show to read them
Fixed
- License links in
Help opening the app instead of the list
Share doing nothing when the browser blocks the clipboard- Undo in the 3D editor not selecting what it changed back
New
Color by height styles fitted to the ground: Alpine, Canyon, Volcanic, Atlas, and Slate- Telluride and Grand Canyon presets
Improved
Nature presets come colored by height- Drag the lines on the
Color by height chart to move where each band starts
Fixed
- Height band styles on the coast fitted to the sea floor
- Changing one height band changing the colors of buildings, roads, or water
Generate showing nothing while it reads the ground for the height bands- Themes saved before their colors changed loading as
Custom
- Picking a preset keeping a scale fitted to a size
New
Add from the map for towers missing from LiDAR only models- LiDAR only models check tall buildings against the survey and switch surveys when one is cut short
Use original building to swap a LiDAR building for the map's versionWalls mode for the Smooth brush, for ribbed glass towersNumber of cells under Grid cells for LiDAR only models
Fixed
- CN Tower printing as spikes
- San Francisco high-rises printing too short
Add from the map ticking buildings the map has wrong, like 2 World Trade Center- Brush strokes dropping a building's setbacks to the street
New
- Models with more plates than one project holds download as several projects with a map of where each plate goes
- Prime tower placed at the back of the bed, with the model moved aside for it
Improved
Fit the bed, the size check, and multi-plate sections leave room for the prime tower- Models that only fit the bed turned are turned in the download
- Multi-plate downloads of LiDAR only models are about three times faster
- Concentric top surface on roads in Bambu Studio and PrusaSlicer projects
Fixed
- Bambu Studio prime tower running off the plate with several colors
- Bambu Studio saying "Isolated objects detected" on multi-plate projects
- H2D and X2D projects purging nothing on the second nozzle between colors
- OrcaSlicer using made up filament settings for P1S projects
- Round and hexagon areas getting tiny corner plates
New
- 48 presets under
Skylines, City centers, Landmarks, and Nature, each with good LiDAR
Map only presets for places without good LiDAR
Improved
- Routes on bridges print in the route's color through the whole deck
- Bridges with several decks stay level with each other
Fixed
- LiDAR in the Netherlands not loading
- Swiss LiDAR from 2024 missing facades and bridge piers
- Towers in Minneapolis and Milwaukee cut off around 70 m up
New
Make it a road to lay a bridge on the ground- glTF (.glb) export for Blender
Vary missing heights for buildings without a mapped heightCut roads into steep ground (off by default)- Share links include settings, colors, and export options
Fixed
- LiDAR only models missing most of their water in places like Clearwater and Naples
- Brushing out boats, docks, and bridges leaving a mound instead of water
- Routes on bridges printing as a wall
New
Color by height for the terrain, up to four bands- Snow & ice surface from mapped glaciers
- Recessed land cover
Improved
- Flat walls instead of ribbed ones on LiDAR buildings
- Cleaner bridges in LiDAR only models
Fixed
- Cincinnati LiDAR taking hours to download
New
- Eight new color themes
- Scale and print size locks in a new
Size section
Print roads to scale (off by default)
Improved
- Routes and drawn roads on LiDAR only models go over bridges and trees instead of under them
New
- Road types, each with its own color, width, or height, or left out
- Surface, park, and building types with their own colors and heights
- Land cover editing in the 3D editor, and
Draw land cover (G)
- Surface brushes for LiDAR only models
Improved
- Cars removed from LiDAR only models by default
- Faster place search
- Golf courses and other land cover that was missing
Changed
New
- Import routes from GPX, KML, KMZ, TCX, FIT, and GeoJSON files
Fit area to routes- Route editor on the map
- Undo and redo for the area and settings
- Road editing by block, and
Split a road (X)
Improved
- Routes line up with the roads they follow
- The Thames prints as water in LiDAR only models of London
New
- Dozens of new LiDAR sources in Europe, Japan, and the US
- Pick a LiDAR survey by hand with
Find surveys
- Asks before downloading large LiDAR files
- Time left on the progress bar
Improved
- More detailed LiDAR roofs in map models
- Better survey ranking
- Parks and plazas keep their exact shape
Fixed
- Very thick bases on some coastal areas
- Dutch LiDAR placed 170 m off
- Leaving the page with a model that hasn't been downloaded now asks first
New
- 3D editor (beta) for removing, resizing, and recoloring buildings, roads, trees, and water
- Text, pins, boxes, cylinders, roads, and buildings can be added in the editor
- Raceways from OpenStreetMap printed with the roads
Grid cells in meters for LiDAR only models
Improved
- Narrow piers and breakwaters widened so they print
- Reworked road tidy
- Satellite land cover off by default
- Small water sits level with the large water it touches
- LiDAR only models leave out haze, read more open water, and use a third less memory
New
Save settings and Load settings- Water layer for LiDAR only models
Slope beaches into water (off by default)
Improved
- Water prints as a thin layer by default, using about half the filament
- Parks and roads no longer dip below the ground at edges and shores
- Raised building parts brought down to the ground
New
- Runs in the browser, ported from the Blender add-on
- Map data from Overture Maps and elevation from AWS Terrain Tiles
- Rectangle, rounded rectangle, circle, and hexagon areas that can be rotated
- Place search, presets, and share links
- 3D preview with the printer bed
- Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer, 3MF, and STL export
- LiDAR buildings
- LiDAR only models
- Installs as an app and works offline