Patent ID: 8172562

Claim:
Apparatus for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by a generative manufacturing method, wherein the object is manufactured in a vertical direction layer-wise from a building material, comprising: a building container, a support in said building container, a material application device for applying layers of a building material onto a said support or a layer, which was applied before, said material application device being arranged above said building container, a solidification device for solidifying the building material in the applied layer, wherein said solidification device is able to solidify said building material in the applied layer at positions corresponding to a cross-section of the object such that the building material gets interconnected with a layer, which was applied before, a drive connected to said building container, wherein the drive functions to generate a movement of said building container around an axis of rotation, a vertical drive connected to said support, which functions to generate a vertical movement of said support, and a controller connected to said solidification device, said drive and said vertical drive, characterized in that said controller is configured to control said solidification device and said drive such that, during active operation of said solidification device on said building material in said solidification region said drive is simultaneously generating a movement of said building container around said access of rotation along with application of building material by said material application device, which is stationary, wherein said solidification device acts on said building material in a solidification region below which the building container is moving.