Application in the process of new product modeling and design 3D printing technology for industrial product design and development personnel to establish a new product development mode. The use of 3D printing technology can quickly, directly and accurately design ideas into a physical model with certain functions (prototype), which not only shortens the development cycle, but also reduces the development costs, but also allows enterprises to take the lead in the fierce market competition.
Architectural design field
The traditional way of making architectural models is gradually unable to meet the requirements of high-end design projects. Full digital restoration of undistorted three-dimensional display and wind tunnels and related testing standards, nowadays many design organizations of large-scale facilities or venues are using 3D printing technology to build accurate architectural models in advance to carry out the effect of the display and related testing, 3D printing technology to play the advantages and incomparable realism for the designers to agree.
Mechanical manufacturing
Because of the characteristics of 3D printing technology itself, making it in the field of mechanical manufacturing, access to a wide range of applications, mostly used for the manufacture of single-piece, small batch metal parts manufacturing. Some special complex parts, because only a single piece of production, or less than 50 pieces of small quantities, generally available 3D printing technology directly for molding, low cost, short cycle.
Mold manufacturing
For example, in the traditional mold manufacturing field such as toy production, often the mold production time is long and the cost is high. Combining 3D printing technology with traditional mold manufacturing technology can greatly shorten the development cycle of mold manufacturing, improve productivity, is an effective way to solve the weak link of mold design and manufacturing. 3D printing technology in mold manufacturing can be divided into direct molding and indirect molding two kinds of direct molding refers to the use of 3D printing technology to directly build up to manufacture the mold, indirect molding is the first to make a rapid prototyping The indirect mold making is to make the rapid prototyping parts first, and then get the required molds from the parts replication.
Medical field
Application in the medical field In recent years, people have been more research on the application of 3D printing technology in the medical field. Based on medical imaging data, the use of 3D printing technology to produce human organ models has great application value for surgical operations.
Culture and art field
In the application of culture and art, 3D printing technology is mostly used for art creation, cultural relics reproduction, digital sculpture and so on.
Aerospace technology field
In the field of aerospace, aerodynamic ground simulation experiment (i.e., wind tunnel experiment) is an important link essential to the design of the advanced performance of the heaven and earth round-trip system (i.e., space shuttle). The model used in the experiment has a complex shape, high precision requirements, and has streamlined characteristics, the use of 3D printing technology, according to the CAD model, by the 3D printing equipment to automatically complete the solid model, can be very good to ensure the quality of the model.
Home appliance field
3D printing technology in the domestic home appliance industry has been popularized and applied to a large extent, so that many home appliance companies in the forefront of the domestic. For example: Guangdong's Midea, Huabao, Kelong; Jiangsu's Chunlan, Little Swan; Qingdao's Haier, etc., have adopted 3D printing technology to develop new products, and received very good results.