Specific application areas include:
1. industrial manufacturing: product conceptual design, prototype making, product review and functional verification; Make a mold prototype or directly print the mold and directly print the product. Conceptual products such as small unmanned aircraft and small cars printed in 3D have come out. 3D printed household appliance models are also used for corporate publicity and marketing activities.
2. Cultural creativity and digital entertainment: artistic expression carriers of complex shapes and structures and special materials. The sci-fi movie Avatar uses 3D printing to create some characters and props. The 3D printed violin is close to the level of handicrafts.
3. Aerospace, national defense and military industry: direct manufacturing of parts and institutions with complex shapes, fine dimensions and special performance.
4. Biomedical treatment: artificial bones, teeth, hearing AIDS, artificial limbs, etc.
5. Consumer goods: design and manufacture of jewelry, clothing, footwear, toys and creative DIY works.
6. Building engineering: wind test and effect demonstration of building model, simulation of building engineering and construction (AEC).
7. Education: the model verifies scientific hypotheses and is used in experiments and teaching of different disciplines. In some middle schools, universities and military academies in the United States, 3D printers have been used for teaching and scientific research.
8. Scientific research: Researchers at drexel University in the United States made a 3D model suitable for research by 3D scanning fossils and using 3D printing technology, which not only kept all the external features of the original fossils, but also reduced the scale, making it more suitable for research.
9. Protection of cultural relics: Museums often use many complicated substitutes to protect the original works from the environment or accidents, and replicas can also influence more and more people from art or cultural relics.
10. food industry: researchers have begun to try to print chocolate. Perhaps in the near future, many foods that look exactly the same will be "printed" by a food 3D printer. Of course, by then, artificially made food may be many times more expensive.
1 1. Personalized customization: personalized printing customization service based on network data download and e-commerce.