3D Printed Boat
By Andrew Gregory. Posted
This article was originally published as part of HackSpace magazine, which has since been incorporated into Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.
The ‘Hello World’ of 3D printing is a little boat called 3DBenchy. Benchy models are usually made as a test to make sure that the 3D printer is calibrated properly.
They’re not meant to be actually sailed in – no one would set sail in anything that’s come out of a 3D printer, would they?
No one, that is, except the hardy souls at the University of Maine, in the USA.
This boat’s hull is 7.6 m long and weighs 2.2 tons, and was printed in 72 hours in one continuous print.
That was enough to earn it two Guinness World Records – it’s the world’s largest 3D-printed boat, and also the world’s largest, solid 3D-printed object of any kind.
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To produce the world’s largest 3D-printed object, you need the world’s largest 3D printer. The one used by UMaine has a print volume of 30 × 6.70 × 3 metres, and uses plastic filament that contains 50% wood-fibre cellulose to achieve a strength comparable with steel.
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