14 DAY TRIAL // 3D printing technology has mostly been used to make new things to far, but 3D scanners have been making it easy to produce small models of yourself and others and, now, huge buildings as well.
Voxeljet has created a casting mould of the St. Lambert’s Cathedral, located in Liege, Belgium.
That's one of the biggest cathedrals ever built, so the model had to be made in a 1:100 scale.
Sadly, it was impossible to actually reproduce the cathedral as it is today. Or, rather, pointless, since only the columns of the original Cathedral remain.
So builder and designer Pierre Jacob had to make a 3D scan of an existing wooden model, then interpret the dimensions using software that integrated more detailed historical elements.
PMMA plastic was used to made the model.
All in all, 3D printing the model not only proved much faster, but it also led to the inclusion of many more details than would otherwise have been possible.