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Snow globe insert

Put a real place inside a DIY snow globe: a mountain with snow on its peaks, the old town where you met, a famous landmark or a home. Tell it which globe you have and the scene is shaped to clear the glass and slip in through the opening.

Your snow globe

Kit

Space from the glass

The scene goes in through the opening

The scene

Drag and zoom the map: what's inside the circle goes in the globe.

Or start from one of these

The look

Mountain height

Buildings

Building height

Snow on the peaks

Snow above

Automatic heights fill the dome without touching it. Anything you make taller is cut flat by the dome.

A base with a name plate

Make a base for the globe to stand in

Engrave terraprinter.com underneath

Colours

In the 3MF every colour is its own named part. Snow is a colour change at one height, so it works on a one-nozzle printer too.

Download

Free for personal use, and for selling up to $5,000 a year with a TerraPrinter credit. Bigger sellers need a commercial license. Keep the data credits. License

How it fits the globe

Every point clears the glass

The room inside the dome is a sphere a little smaller than the glass, standing on the platform. The scene is scaled to fill it, then anything that would still come closer than the space you chose is cut away, so it can never scrape the glass.

In through the opening

Most kits are filled upside down and the scene goes in through the hole in the bottom. The round base and everything on it stay narrower than the opening, so it slips in on the stopper or base and sits on the platform.

Made to survive water

Mountains are made taller than real so they read in a small globe. Buildings and thin parts of landmarks are widened to at least a 1 mm wall, and loose bits the dome would cut off are left out, so nothing breaks off when you shake it.

Ideas to try

The mountain you climbed, the ski town of a winter holiday, the old town where you got engaged, a first home, or a city's landmark for someone who moved away. Add the base with their name on the front for a Christmas or birthday gift.

Elevation: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (© DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA) and Mapzen Terrain Tiles on AWS. Water and buildings: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenStreetMap contributors, © CARTO. Kit sizes are typical figures from shop listings: kits vary, so measure yours. Want more? Make a map ornament, your home in 3D, browse the landmarks, open the TerraPrinter app or see more 3D map gift ideas.