![]() ![]() Before long the team had developed robots capable of spitting out steel in long, curving lines, drawing them in the air like some kind marker for three dimensions. The answer to that need was the welding robot. After some experiments with resin, they realized they needed a stronger material, like steel. To be free of the box, they wanted to make a machine that would print in lines, rather than in layers. “We wanted a printer that could print a full piece of furniture,” says mechanical engineer Tim Geurtjens, the company’s chief technical officer. ![]() This is the conundrum that faced the folksat MX3D, a furniture and manufacturing company out of Amsterdam. Tables, bridges, and buildings are not going to come out of a MakerBot Replicator, or a Stratsys Fortus 900mc, for that matter. If you want to print something bigger than a breadbox in a single pass, good luck finding the tools. The much-touted benefits of 3D printing: affordability, flexibility, and rapid production, have largely been unavailable for large-scale projects. ![]()
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