Dubai’s enormous trade show, GITEX Technology Week, this past week featured, along with some big names in consumer computers and electronics, what may be the biggest sculpture ever made with a 3Doodler 3D printing pen. It’s fitting that this giant 3D printed sculpture is a model of the world’s tallest building: the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai, which stands at 829.8 m (2,722 ft) tall.
At the ShowStoppers @ GITEX 2014 event, held on the eve of GITEX Technology Week, a number of companies exhibited their products, representing industry in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Present that night was 3Doodler, with their partner in the United Arab Emirates, Precise Trading. To showcase their 3D printing pen, the two had constructed the Burj Khalifa sculpture, which took 170 hours to build between two people, using 1200 10″ strands of PLA plastic. The sculpture is about 2.5 meters tall and its features are scaled to match that of the actual building. To create the cylindrical structures of the tower, sheets were first doodled, heated, and then wrapped around wooden shapes.
We continue to be impressed with the work that can be created with a 3Doodler!
Now, we await an actual building constructed with a 3Doodler…. anyone?
