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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

tclambert

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6. Typically you need scaffolding to hold up arches and horizontal stretches until the concrete hardens

Reply to bhikkhu (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 29, 2014, 11:55 AM

Aug 2014

Can the printer print around a temporary scaffolding? With brickwork, you make a plywood jig for the arch, lay the bricks on that, and remove the jig after the mortar hardens. In the pictured castle, he got around this by making really narrow windows and pointy arches.

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Man 3-D Prints Backyard Castle, Plans Two-Story House Next (xpost from GD) [View all] KamaAina Aug 2014 OP

It's a great castle, can't wait to see the house. hardcover Aug 2014 #1

Doing a picture window or a garage door might be problems. tclambert Aug 2014 #2

That's alwasy been a problem with concrete bhikkhu Aug 2014 #4

Typically you need scaffolding to hold up arches and horizontal stretches until the concrete hardens tclambert Aug 2014 #6

I don't think they use molds at all in the 3d printing bhikkhu Aug 2014 #7

Too cool packman Aug 2014 #3

I see the real problem jmowreader Aug 2014 #5

Does it include rebar in it or is that not needed for large structures? cstanleytech Aug 2014 #8

Castle is beautiful. oldandhappy Aug 2014 #9

Very cool. 3rdwaydem Aug 2014 #10

What happens to these structures in an earthquake? pnwmom Aug 2014 #11

The same things that happens to other concrete buildings Thor_MN Sep 2014 #12

Scale ratio? OxQQme Sep 2014 #13