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About Project

The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210鈥�209 BCE with the purpose of protecting the emperor in his afterlife.
The terracotta army figures were manufactured in workshops by government laborers and local craftsmen using local materials – yellow earth. Heads, arms, legs, and torsos were created separately and then assembled by luting the pieces together.
We made a scaled-down version of one of the famous Terracotta Warrior with SLM printing technology. There are rich details in the less-than-10cm-high miniatures. And it's printed in one piece, no more need to create the parts separately.

Solution

• Step 1: There are rich resources about Terracotta Warrior on 3D model platform. We just buy one from the Internet, add supporting structures and arrange the placement in the software.
• Step 2: Prepare the steel powders, heat the printer chamber to correct temperature, then the laser touches the area as the set route.
• Step 3: Break the thin supports with pliers, cut the thick supports with wire cutting. Polish to remove the bumps.