Additive manufacturing apparatus

An additive manufacturing apparatus comprising:

• a table;
• an ejecting unit that faces the table and ejects photocurable droplets toward the table;
• a light-applying unit including an emitting unit that emits light and a changing unit that changes a direction of travel of the light emitted from the emitting unit, the light-applying unit applying, while the direction of travel of the light emitted from the emitting unit is changed by the changing unit, light to and curing the droplets ejected from the ejecting unit and landed on the table;
• a moving unit that moves the table back and forth along with the emitting unit and relative to the ejecting unit;
• and
• a controller that controls the ejecting unit, the emitting unit, and the moving unit such that the ejecting unit ejects droplets and makes the droplets land on the table while the table is moved relative to the ejecting unit;
• the light-applying unit applies, when a direction of relative movement of the table is changed, light to the droplets that have moved together with the table out of an area where the table faces the ejecting unit;
• and a three-dimensional object is formed as a stack of layers composed of the droplets that have been cured.