Cities: Skylines YouTuber managed to 3D print their incredible city square

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Ever since it started making its way into homes, 3D printing has been huge for creative nerds. Be it altruistic creations like these 3D printed accessible controller adapters(opens in new tab), or a Steam Deck(opens in new tab), this tech paves the way for all stripes of makers to print previously impossible objects with relative ease in their own homes. Relative ease does tend to be a key word though, as one enthusiast learned when printing this impressive map-view model of their Cities: Skylines city.

The idea of printing out your own city from one of these games is a great idea. If you've played a city builder before you know that these metropolises grow out of nothing to become huge sprawling problems in no time. But those problems are yours, unique to you and your choices. Dumptropolis may be a dump, but it's my dump. From its poorly planned industrial area, to the unfortunate sewer plant right next to the entertainment precinct. 

Akruas is thankfully a Cities: Skylines player with a lot more skill and forethought than I. Their YouTube(opens in new tab) is full of videos detailing their impressive digital city building. This includes a series behind their central European city concept Altengrad, which was the subject for this challenging 3D print project. 

Getting this sprawling view of Altengrad in printed plastic wasn't as easy as just exporting a 3D file. Unfortunately Cities: Skylines doesn't have something like the nifty export feature used to export and print these neat Townscaper dioramas(opens in new tab). Add it to the features we'd like to see in Cities: Skylines 2(opens in new tab) when it launches later this year.(opens in new tab) Instead Akraus explains in this Twitter thread(opens in new tab) how they