Made to order · printed from lidar
A farm, a hunting parcel, a lake lot, a building site — printed from the ground's own survey. Every height comes from the USGS lidar flown over your county, the edge is cut to your parcel line or your fence, and you choose how much the hills are stretched. It sits on a desk and shows at a glance what a plat map never does: where the water goes.
Two fenced fields from one site and a 76-acre parcel from another, printed in two halves that butt together on the line. Drag to turn them. The slider sets the height exaggeration: at 1× the model is true to scale and nearly flat, because this ground has only 20 to 35 feet of relief.
Open the full model, with its numbers →
| Piece | Ground | On the plate | Relief |
|---|---|---|---|
| Field 1 | 8.0 ac | 53 × 160 mm | 24 ft |
| Field 2 | 8.8 ac | 95 × 99 mm | 34 ft |
| Parcel 3, two halves | 76 ac | 205 × 201 mm each | 20 ft |
All at 1:2000 — 1 mm on the piece is 2 m on the ground. Shown here as models, from the same files the printer slices.
An address, a parcel number, or a few pins dropped on a map. Say where the edge should be — the property line, a fence, or a plain rectangle — and what you want marked on it.
The heights come from USGS 3DEP, a 1 m grid good to about 10–20 cm. You get a private page like the one above, with the same slider, and nothing prints until you've turned it over and said yes.
One piece per build plate, up to about 250 mm square. Ground too big for one plate is cut into pieces that butt together on a line you choose, the way Parcel 3 is.
Lidar is bare earth: the ground with the buildings and trees taken off. That is what shows the drainage, and it is why a house is a groove you ask for, not a block.
At 1:2000 one plate holds roughly 60 acres. A smaller lot prints at a larger scale, 1:1000 or 1:500, and shows more.
The 1 m lidar covers most of the country but not all of it. I check your parcel before quoting.
I'll quote you before I start. Nothing to pay to find out what it costs.