3DPrinTravel: Bring Every Destination a 3D Printed Piece of Itself

Italian engineer Angelo D’Angelo has two big obsessions: travel and 3D printing. Worthy obsessions indeed, even on their own, but the creative D’Angelo proposed a way to combine his two passions into an ongoing project. D’Angelo is a writer of multiple travel blogs and has been engaged in 3D printing since 2011. Now, whenever he travels, he brings some 3D printed content to each city.

“Basically, what I want to do is to create models of monuments (or download them) of the places I want to go, 3D print them using different materials according to the models, and then take photos of the models in front of the real monuments, and then I share them in my I used the hashtag #3DPrinTravel on my Instagram profile to take photos with the model on my profile.”

Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania

He called the project #3DPrinTravel, which is a simple concept. Before heading to the new city, D’Angelo chose one of the landmark monuments of the location, and then searched online for a 3D model of the location; if he couldn’t find it, he would design his own model and print it out. He carried the 3D printed model with him, and when he arrived at his destination, he took a 3D printed miniature in front of the actual monument or site.

The project started in 2015 as a 3D printed model of the Duomo di Milano or Milan Cathedral, located in Angelo’s hometown of Milan. A few days later, on a trip to Athens, he decided to do the same thing with the Parthenon. The whim then turned into a project. D’Angelo bought his own FABtotum 3D printer before traveling around the Balkans and the 3D printed model of the Skopje Orthodox Church in Macedonia; the Orthodox Cathedral of Tirana, Albania; and the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Podgorica, Montenegro, all designed in Tinkercad.

Since then, #3DPrinTravel has grown into a collection of 30+ models from 25+ different countries in Europe, Asia, and America in less than three years. More and more enthusiasts join the game and share their unique travel photographs with this tag. Several of the models are available on Thingiverse. Wanna join them and memorize the beauty of our planet with a 3D printed miniature? Here we’ve collected some 3D models of the world’s most famous landmark monuments. With over 600+ 3D printers, 100+ supported materials, 20+ post-processing options, and more than 20 years’ experience, FacFox can produce models with materials that are the best match for the original structure on your demand.