Skip to content
contour studio

FREE SOFTWARE. REAL PLACES. YOUR CREATION.

A little piece
of your world.

Turn a place you love into 3D-printable map art. Create a framed relief of your hometown or a favourite landscape, with real terrain, buildings and your own finishing touches.

Download for freeView the source

Completely free · Open source · No account needed

LIVE 3DBolton upon Dearne
A generated framed map with green land, blue water and pale roads and buildings
Loading your little world…
0%

Drag to rotate · Scroll or pinch to zoom. Keyboard: arrows rotate, Shift + arrows pan, + / − zoom, R resets.

Loading interactive map
Real generated map · Explore the actual model© OpenStreetMap contributors · Mapzen terrain credits
Runs on your computerSTL & 3MF print filesMIT licensed

YOUR PLACE, AT HOME

Made for your wall.

A favourite place, turned into something you can make and keep.

The actual framed Bolton upon Dearne relief model hanging above an oak sideboard in a modern home, seen at a slight angle with raised roads, buildings and terrain.
Bolton upon Dearne · 400 × 280 mm · Warm neutralsActual generated model · Digital room mockup

FROM A PLACE TO A PRINT

Make somewhere meaningful.

  1. 01

    Choose your place

    Find your hometown, a favourite landscape or a place you want to remember. Choose the area and finished size.

  2. 02

    Make it yours

    Adjust the terrain, buildings, colours and frame. Add a heart, star or pin to mark somewhere special.

  3. 03

    Bring it into the world

    Generate your model and download the print pack. Larger artworks split into pieces that fit your printer.

YOURS, FOR £0

Download Contour Studio.

The desktop app includes the generation engine. You don’t need Python, Node.js or a paid service.

Build your own

Explore the code, change it or run from source.

Download source

MIT licence · .zip

First public preview · v1.0.0-rc.1. Community builds are unsigned. Mac may ask you to use Privacy & Security → Open Anyway; Windows may show an unknown-publisher prompt. Internet is needed to fetch map data. Model generation and project storage happen on your computer.

Release notes & installation help

Want to explore first? Open the free web designer. Design in your browser, then generate the print files in the desktop app.

COMPLETELY FREE. COMPLETELY OPEN SOURCE.

Do your thing.
It’s yours to build on.

Use it. Change it. Share it. Make something of your own. Contour Studio’s application code is released under the MIT licence, including permission for commercial use.

There’s no subscription, paid tier or generation fee. Keep the copyright and licence notice when sharing the software. Geographic data and third-party libraries keep their own licences and attribution requirements.

Public GitHub repositoryRead the MIT licence
Louis Goldsbrough

THE PERSON BEHIND CONTOUR STUDIO

Hi, I’m Louis.

I’m Louis Goldsbrough, a Lead Engineer who builds software and creative projects. Contour Studio is one of those projects: a free, open-source way to turn meaningful places into something you can make and keep.

Follow along for Contour Studio updates and other things I’m building, or explore more of my work in my portfolio.

Follow @imloulouTwitter / XExplore my portfoliolouisgoldsbrough.co.uk

A SMALL THANK YOU, IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT

Enjoyed making something?

If Contour Studio helped you create a little piece of your world, you can buy me a coffee as a thanks. It’s entirely optional — every download and feature is free either way.

Buy me a coffee