14 DAY TRIAL // Back in May, Chinese company Sanya Industrial Innovation Design Center, or SIIDC for short, designed a very large 3D printer, large enough to create boats and even cars.
And the size wasn't all of it. The printer was also supposedly capable of printing objects from multiple materials at once, and thus, was not restricted to a single color during the process.
Now, that very printer has been put to use. SIIDC used it to create a 2-person boat in full scale, in a single printing session. It may even be the first 3D-printed boat ever made in China.
The boat measures 6 x 4 x 2 meters / 19.68 x 13.12 x 6.56 feet, or so the report claims. The build volume of the printer was said to only be of 6 x 3.5 x 3.5 meters / 19.68 x 11.48 x 11.48 feet, so that might not be perfectly accurate.
A nylon-like material was used, but it didn't come in filament form, because the printer doesn't use such spools. Instead, it can be fed raw materials in the form of ground up thermoplastics or pellets, something that only rare (and much smaller) other alternatives, like the David 3D printer, can claim to do.
Alas, if you want to buy one of the boats you'll have to wait, because the Chinese company isn't selling them, and might never do so.