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The world's first bridge made with the help of a 3D printer was built in Spain

A bridge made with the help of a 3D printer

There are no barriers to 3D printers. With the help of 3D printing, practically everything can be produced today. Even the bridge! This was proven by the Spanish Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, which built the world's first bridge made with the help of a 3D printer in the Castilla-La Mancha park in Alcobendas.

They set up in Spain the first bridge in the world made with the help of a 3D printer, which we know makes physical objects based on a computer model. He grew up in the park Castilla-La Manchand in the town of Alcobendas near Madrid.

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12-meter bridge, over which the Catalan watched over IAAC institute, has been standing since December 2016, but now it has been handed over to the public. It is made of eight printed parts. V concrete they mixed it up polyethylene. Although the bridge is not exactly an aesthetic excess, it is additionally paves the way for 3D printing in construction. Houses made with the help of a 3D printer are not far away.

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