TOP 5 VIDEOS: Open Heritage, exploring the world thanks to 3D printing technologies

This week we found the top 5 videos about 3D printing and the way additive manufacturing is shaping our society. The technology has infiltrated many sectors, from medical to space! Check out our selection of the week to keep up with the innovations! This week we touch on 3D printed artefacts, bathrooms and and much more! If you enjoy these, you can view even more 3D printing videos on our Youtube channel. Hope you’ll enjoy and have a great Sunday!

Top 1: Open Heritage, discovering in 3D

Using Google’s tools, Open Heritage is a project launched by Google Arts and Culture that aims to make art and culture accessible to all, whether in a museum or research context. In the following video, a temple from Thailand was 3D scanned to then be printed in one go on a Stratasys J750 3D printer, in full-colour. 3D printing technologies offer a real potential to bring back to life old artefacts, make them in different scales, fabricate multiple to have around the world, etc. The possibilities are endless!

Top 2: A 3D printed concrete bridge

Do you remember the 3D printed bridge for Dutch cyclists? It was created in 2017 by the BAM group, this bridge is 8 metres long and 3.5 metres wide and had been designed with 800 successive layers of concrete. The video below shows us a little bit about the manufacturing process of this bridge as well as how 3D technologies can nowadays shake up the construction sector as we know it today!