TerraPrinter

What is TerraPrinter?

TerraPrinter builds printable terrain models from real map data in your browser. You search for a place or pan to it, pick a rectangle, square, circle, hexagon or a shape you draw (50 to 500 mm), and layer in buildings, roads, water, trees, railways and parks from OpenStreetMap on top of Copernicus 30 m elevation. Small models in the US and Canada use 1 to 3 m LiDAR terrain, buildings get measured heights and pitched roofs, famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower are swapped in as detailed models, and a sea-floor mode prints real ocean depth.

Besides Earth it prints 22 other worlds, from the Moon and Mars to Pluto, Titan and Jupiter, mostly from NASA and USGS elevation data. Styles include jigsaw puzzles, Minecraft-style voxels with a .schem export, ski runs, golf courses, GPX routes, contour lines and satellite colors reduced to your filaments. Big areas split into tiles up to 500 km across, and the multicolor 3MF keeps terrain, water, roads and buildings as separate parts.

A gift section has 18 makers that each do one job: map ornaments, lithophanes and Moon lamps, relief globes, wall maps and laser-cut boards, layered contour models, map keychains, race medals from a GPX file, ring and pendant jewelry, a 3D model of your house, coasters, star maps, backlit shadow boxes, bookends and vases, watershed models, a mountain ball run, cookie cutters and chocolate or soap molds.

Making models stays free with no account. From 1 November 2026, selling prints or files needs a yearly license, from $50 a year for up to $5,000 in sales; files downloaded before that date keep their free commercial license.

What you can make

• Terrain models with buildings and roads
• Terrain of the Moon, Mars and 21 other worlds
• Terrain jigsaw puzzles and hex tiles
• Relief globes, lithophanes and Moon lamps
• Map ornaments, keychains and race medals
• Cookie cutters, molds and ball runs

How to use TerraPrinter

1. Search or pan to a place, or pick another world
2. Pick a shape and draw the area
3. Toggle map features, style and colors, or open one of the gift makers
4. Preview in 3D and download STL, 3MF, OBJ or GLB