Abstract: Described are devices and methods for unpacking a three-dimensional object, manufactured in a swap container by layer-by-layer application and selective solidification of a powdery structural material, from the structural material that surrounds the object and has remained unsolidified, comprising a turning device that rotates the swap container from an upright position into an unloading position for discharging the unsolidified structural material, wherein the turning device comprises a drive unit by which the three-dimensional object is displaceable into a removal position relative to the swap container), following the unpacking of the unsolidified structural material.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods and devices for producing three-dimensional components by selective solidification from build material applied in layered fashion by providing a building cylinder in which substrate plates are stacked one above the other, applying the build material to the uppermost substrate plate with an application device, generating at least one beam and directing the beam onto the applied layer of the build material, moving the application device along a working plane at least along the building cylinder and at least one collecting chamber for non-solidified build material, and moving the substrate plate out in relation to the building cylinder such that a bottom of the substrate plate lies in the working plane, wherein the substrate plate which has been moved out of the building cylinder is transferred by the application device from the building cylinder into the adjacent collecting chamber.

Abstract: Described are devices and methods for unpacking a three-dimensional object, manufactured in a swap container by layer-by-layer application and selective solidification of a powdery structural material, from the structural material that surrounds the object and has remained unsolidified, comprising a turning device that rotates the swap container from an upright position into an unloading position for discharging the unsolidified structural material, wherein the turning device comprises a drive unit by which the three-dimensional object is displaceable into a removal position relative to the swap container), following the unpacking of the unsolidified structural material.