I’ve spent most of this week in Amsterdam with colleagues from the Toronto office. Our group descended on the MX3D offices in the funky NDSM wharf area of the city, to make a big push and help get the world’s first robotically 3D-printed steel bridge – and its supporting systems – ready for Dutch Design Week.
Most of the team stayed in a hotel right next to MX3D, but we did get the chance to take the ferry across to “the mainland” (it isn’t really: everything is connected, it just seems that way) from time to time.
It was really nice to see the progress since my last visit. The bridge has decking welded in place, which certainly makes walking over it much safer.
One of the days I was there the sky was clear, which meant we had really nice morning and evening light hitting the bridge.
Autodesk isn’t the only partner working with MX3D on the bridge, of course. Arne Vogt from FORCE Technology (left) was there to install sensors and cabling on the bridge, which Crag…