Will it look exactly like my house?

The front, roof and colours follow your photo closely. Sides you didn't photograph are inferred, so add a side photo for a closer match.

Is it a good realtor or housewarming gift?

Yes. Print it at 8–12 cm in white or painted, add an engraved base, and you have a keepsake of the new home.

Can I do apartments or shops?

Yes. Any single building works: cabins, townhouses, shops, churches or a holiday villa.

3D Printing template · free to try

House Miniature From a Photo

Name: House Miniature: before and after
Uploaded: 2026-10-25
Duration: 4 s
Description: Turn a photo of your home into a printable miniature

Turn a photo of your home into a printable miniature

Try it with your photo

Free to try · takes about 2–3 min

Upload a normal photo. About 2–3 min later you download a printable miniature as STL or 3MF, ready to print. No 3D skills needed.

Try it

Try it with your photo

Turn a photo of your home into a printable miniature. The prompts and settings are already done for you.

Example 1 of 4

Upload a photo of the house

Drop photos or click to upload1–3 photos with the whole front visible

Style

SurroundingsOptionalFront lawn

Quality

~2–3 min · STL & 3MF · housewarming & realtor gifts · free to try

Examples

Made with this template

The photo in the corner of each one is what went in.

Each example is an actual run of this template at Standard quality, made from a realistic sample photo.

How it works

From photos to file in about 2–3 min

Upload a photo, then wait while 2 AI steps run. Nothing to set up.

1
You
You add a photo
1–3 photos with the whole front visible
Image Studio2
AI
AI redraws your picture
Image Studio keeps the roof, floors, windows, door and colours, removes cars, wires and neighbours, and sets the house on a square base with a strip of lawn.
Image to 3D3
AI
AI builds it in 3D
Image to 3D (Prism 3.1) builds the miniature with Fast textures and Standard mesh quality.
STL 3MF OBJ
4
Yours
You download the file
As STL, 3MF or OBJ. You can use it however you like.

After the download

Print it at home or order it

Open the STL in your slicer, or upload it to a print service if you don't have a printer.

Print it at home

Any FDM or resin printer works. Open the file in your slicer and press print.

No printer? Order it

Upload the STL to an online print service or a local print shop and get it delivered.

Give it as a gift

Birthdays, weddings, a thank-you for a teacher. Nobody else will have the same one.

Paint it

Print in grey and paint it, or print in colour if your printer can.

Behind the scenes

How this template works

Image Studio rebuilds the building from your photo as a clean scale model on a small base, then Image to 3D turns it into a model you can print.

1
Step 1 · Image Studio
Build the miniature
Image Studio keeps the roof, floors, windows, door and colours, removes cars, wires and neighbours, and sets the house on a square base with a strip of lawn.
GPT Image 2.5 Flare · low quality
Open Image Studio
2
Step 2 · Image to 3D
Build the 3D model
Image to 3D (Prism 3.1) builds the miniature with Fast textures and Standard mesh quality.
Prism 3.1 · Fast textures · Standard mesh
Open Image to 3D

Do it yourself for more control

Add details in the Image Studio prompt: a mailbox, a tree, the family car in the driveway.
Use Ultra mesh quality for crisper window frames and roof tiles.
Use Add Base in Print Export for a wider plinth with room for an engraved address.

New here

What is 3D AI Studio?

3D AI Studio is a web app that makes 3D models, images and sounds with AI. It runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install.

A template is a saved recipe. It runs a fixed set of AI tools with settings we've already tested, so all you add is a photo or a sentence.

Runs in your browserPhone or computer

Inside this template

Step 1
Image Studio
Edits and redraws pictures with AI image models.
Step 2
Image to 3D
Turns a single picture into a textured 3D model.

Before you start

What you need

A photo from your phone
1–3 photos with the whole front visible
3D software or skills
Not needed. It all happens in the browser
A 3D printer
Optional. You can order the print online
A free account
Sign up with Google or email

Free to try

PaintedDefault

painted in the building's real colours, like a handcrafted model.

Architect white

one uniform matte white material like an architect's presentation model, no painted colours.

Wood

carved from one warm light wood with a fine grain, no painted colours.

Your download

The files you get

STLThe standard file for 3D printers.

Open it in a slicer such as Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer or Cura, then press print.

3MFA newer print file that also keeps size and colours.

Best for Bambu Lab and Prusa printers.

OBJA universal 3D file with its colour texture.

Opens in Blender and almost every 3D app.

Best results

Which photo to use

A photo like this works

Shoot from across the street so the whole front and roof fit in the frame.
A second photo from the side helps with depth.
Overcast daylight keeps colours even and hides harsh shadows.

Good to know: Hidden sides are inferred from the photo, so the back of the house is a plausible guess, not an exact copy.

MCP connector

Run this template from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Connect the 3D AI Studio MCP to your AI assistant and paste the brief into the chat. It runs the same steps with the same prompts and settings, shows you the result in the conversation and saves it to your library.

Style

Surroundings

Connect the MCP once in your account settings. It's included in every paid plan.
Copy the brief.
Paste it into a new chat. Your assistant opens an upload card for your photo, then runs every step.

Tools it calls

upload_imageedit_image_gptgenerate_prism_3_1convert_modelget_generationshow_generation

What the MCP connector does Setup guides

Chat brief · House Miniature

Use the 3D AI Studio MCP to run the "House Miniature" template (https://www.3daistudio.com/templates/house-miniature-from-photo) for me.

My photo(s): I'll hand them over when you call upload_image.
Style: Painted
Surroundings: Front lawn

Follow these steps in order. The prompts and settings are the template's own, so use them word for word.

1. Get my photos
Call upload_image with purpose "Photo for the House Miniature template" so I can hand them over (images attached in the chat don't reach the MCP). I can upload up to 3 photos of the same subject; use all of them.

2. Build the miniature
Call edit_image_gpt with my uploaded photo(s) in images, quality "low", output_format "png" and this prompt:
"""
The reference photo(s) show a real building. Turn it into a single detailed architectural miniature of exactly that building: keep its shape, number of floors, roof form and colour, wall materials and colours, windows, front door, porch, chimneys and other recognisable features, tidied up and slightly simplified like a handcrafted scale model. Remove cars, people, wires and neighbouring buildings. The building stands on a small flat square base with a strip of lawn and a short path to the door. Three-quarter view from slightly above, front and one side visible, the entire model and base visible with generous empty margin. Isolated on a seamless pure white (#FFFFFF) background, soft even studio lighting, no shadows on the background, no text. Finish: painted in the building's real colours, like a handcrafted model.
"""

3. Build the 3D model
Call generate_prism_3_1 with the task_id of the image from step 2 in images, texture_model "3.5", texture_quality "fast", geometry_quality "standard", pbr false.

4. Export
Export it for printing: call convert_model on the 3D model with output_format "3mf" (or "stl" if I ask for it), plus max_size and unit "cm" if I gave you a print size.

After each generation call, keep polling get_generation with its task_id until it completes, then show me the result with show_generation before you start the next step.

Or automate it with the API

The same tools are available through the 3D AI Studio API. Call them from your own code to make hundreds at once, build them into your app or run them in your pipeline.

API docs Get an API key

House Miniature: questions & answers

3D AI Studio is a web app that makes 3D models, images and sounds with AI. It runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install. A template is a saved recipe. It runs a fixed set of AI tools with settings we've already tested, so all you add is a photo or a sentence.