Restoration using 3D printing
For fifteen years the team from the Egyptian Museum in Berlin dug in the Sudanese desert and restored historically valuable items. The exhibition “Naga City of Kings” at the Kunstforum of the Berliner Volksbank Foundation now presents the impressive results of this work. Visitors can even glimpse an actual model of the famous Hathor Chapel, which was produced by voxeljet using the 3D printing method Binder Jetting.
As a first step, the remaining parts of the Hathor chapel had to be scanned so that the temple restoration project could be tested on a virtual model in advance. The resulting computer model offered the archaeologists an opportunity to disassemble the building into its structures right on the computer monitor and develop the appropriate measures to save the building, which was at risk of collapsing.
We used high-precision 3D stripe light scanning in the Sudanese desert and worked for three weeks to fully compile the entire chapel. We went back to Berlin with 2,500 individual scans and approximately 1.5 billion of recorded image points.
Thomas Bauer,Trigonart
The exhibition in Berlin, which ends on 18 December 2011, required a real model of the restored Hathor Chapel. The model was created at Europe’s largest service centre at voxeljet in Augsburg. “I must admit – the request to print a historic temple was not something we see every day. But once we obtained all the information from Trigonart and analysed the existing data material, we thought that it would be quite possible to implement the project at the requested quality,” says Dr. Ingo Ederer, CEO of voxeljet AG. Once the CAD data for the temple model were available, we moved directly to a 3D VX800 high-performance printer. It is here that we created the plastic model of the Hathor Chapel (481 x 825 x 584 millimetres), at a scale of 1:10.
The richness of detail in our scans finds its full expression in the plastic model. Another advantage is the mechanical stability of the model, which promises a long service life.
Markus PrausTrigonart
More Case Studies
3D printing for product and interior designers
3D printed design objects open up new possibilities for product designers, interior designers and artists to showcase their work and design solutions.
3D Printing in Reverse Engineering
In the oldtimer sector, more and more spare parts are being manufactured without tools using modern measuring technology in combination with 3D printing.
3D printing and its applications for racing
3D printing provides racing with the ability to quickly complete innovation cycles. From 3D printed castings, to lamination templates, to polymer functional parts.
3D Printing and Motor Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing shortens product time in engine construction and offers faster innovation cycles for individual motor components.
3D printing for the pump industry
Our Binder Jetting Technology is an excellent alternative to conventional production.
3D printed prototype of a cylinder head
Using our industrial 3D printer, we produced a sand casting core for a heavy cylinder head for MAN Diesel & Turbo.
3D printed pump impeller
Using sand casting molds from the 3D printer, a pump casing weighing up to 800 kg was produced for the pump manufacturer Nijhuis.
Get in touch
Industrial 3D Printing Systems
Our portfolio of industrial 3D printers ranges from compact systems for research to additive mass production.