Materialise to Print Life-Size Mammoth in Biggest SLA Project Ever

Instead of using the original 19^th century exterior mounting system, a more sophisticated interior mount structure made of carbon will be created and integrated inside the plastic bones – meaning that in the digital phase, Materialise engineers already had to think about how to fit the structure within the bones, integrating entry and exit holes in the bones for the carbon tubes. For the modular carbon structure Materialise drew on the experience of its daughter company RapidFit in the automotive tooling.  The result is a sturdy and lightweight structure weighing a mere 300 kg in total.