Generated from the same geometry the printer is handed — the plate seen from directly above. It cannot show the relief, which is the part you have to hold.
Canton Bern
Twenty-six districts, Jura to Jungfrau
Bern is three landscapes in one canton and the puzzle makes it obvious: the parallel ridges of the Jura at the top, the rolling Mittelland in the middle where nearly everyone lives, and the Bernese Oberland at the bottom printed white with snow. Very few political units contain that much variation, and holding all twenty-six pieces at once is the fastest way to understand why the canton argues with itself about so much.
What a child works out
- The Jura's ridges are parallel because they were folded, not piled.
- One canton can hold three completely different kinds of country.
- Where the snow line sits is a fact about height, and you can see it.
The geometry for this plate is finished and verified, but it is not part of the regular print run yet. Ask and it can be cut.
The plate
- Pieces
- 26 pieces
- Plate
- 250 × 176 mm
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 724 m
- Vertical exaggeration
- × 0.76
- Thickness
- 8.8 mm
- Smallest piece
- 43 mm²
- Fit
- 0.35 mm clearance
- Material
- PLA, printed in Switzerland
B5 — the size of a school exercise book.
How much ground one millimetre of plate covers.
Height is compressed here — the terrain is dramatic enough at this scale that true height would not fit the plate.
Nothing is cut smaller than a child can pick up.
Printed in place, so every piece seats first time without sanding.
Every named piece
- Aarberg
- Aarwangen
- Bern
- Biel
- Büren
- Burgdorf
- Courtelary
- Erlach
- Fraubrunnen
- Frutigen
- Interlaken
- Konolfingen
- La Neuveville
- Laupen
- Moutier
- Nidau
- Niedersimmental
- Oberhasli
- Obersimmental
- Saanen
- Schwarzenburg
- Seftigen
- Signau
- Thun
- Trachselwald
- Wangen
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Land of Sky
Forty-three townships around Asheville
The most pieces of any plate in the collection, at a scale where you can find the road you live on.
- Pieces
- 43 pieces
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 522 m
- Suitable for
- Ages 8 and up
- Price
- CHF 120.00
Ticino
Eight districts on the sunny side of the Alps
Bellinzona, Locarno, Lugano, Mendrisio, Blenio, Leventina, Riviera, Vallemaggia — eight pieces, all mountain.
- Pieces
- 8 pieces
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 387 m
- Suitable for
- Ages 6 and up
- Price
- CHF 120.00
Canton Zürich
Twelve districts around the lake
The whole canton at 305 metres to the millimetre, with the lake, the Glatt valley and the Albis ridge.
- Pieces
- 12 pieces
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 305 m
- Suitable for
- Ages 6 and up
- Price
- CHF 120.00