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Construction Equipment

How a machinist 3D printed a Caterpillar D10 dozer (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

3D printing is one of those amazing, futuristic technologies that has somehow snuck beneath the radar of the majority of the general public. That’s probably because most 3D printing is still done on the small scale and with plastics, but continuing innovation in the field is bringing us closer and closer to the day where […]

June 10, 2015

Technology

Minibuilders: Fleet of robots works together as a roving 3D printer of concrete buildings (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

[imagebrowser id=104] Though 3D printing is one of the more exciting emerging technologies in several industries right now, for the construction industry the possibility of one day efficiently printing buildings and other structures is perhaps most exciting. Inspired by that possibility while challenged by the size of current 3D printers, a team of Spanish architecture […]

June 26, 2014

Construction Equipment

Ford’s new 3D printer can make car parts from sheet metal in just a few hours

By this point, everyone’s pretty familiar with 3D printing technology. It can be really useful for prototyping and designing new things, but also for restoring older things such as an automobile that needs a part that is no longer being made. Ford wanted to take advantage of that type of technology in its prototyping process […]

July 18, 2013

Technology

GEAR: 3Doodler 3D printing pen

There’s no question whether the advent of 3D printing will have an affect on the architecture and construction industries. Not only can you use the technology to create models of a structure, you can then print out pieces of the structure and assemble them. But what if you could print a 3D structure as you […]

February 25, 2013

Construction Equipment

Moon dwelling could be built with 3D printer

If you’ve ever wondered what a lunar habitat looks like, you may soon find out thanks to the D-Shape 3D printer. Enrico Dini, inventor of the large-format 3D printer D-Shape, the European Space Agency and Foster + Partners have plans to test whether the first lunar habitats could be printed using sand from the moon, […]

February 7, 2013