Topographical map surrounding Reno Nevada

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I designed this model specifically for my Reddit Secret Santa, who had a passion for geography and lived in Reno. Since there weren't any suitable scans of Reno itself available, I created the area to be printed at a larger scale, incorporating some of the local hills into the design. The STL file is substantial - it originally exceeded 500mb in size. I'm unsure whether this was due to my inexperience with modeling or another factor entirely, but I didn't notice any settings in QGIS that could have minimized the size further. To address this issue, I opened the file in Meshmixer and converted it to a solid object, reducing its overall size. If you're interested in the original high-resolution version of the model, please let me know. In the end, I constructed a sturdy shadowbox to display the finished product, and I'm pleased with how it turned out.