3D printing technology, namely additive manufacturing technology, can build a complete functional component from scratch through the continuous overlapping and bonding of material layers. This change brought by 3D printing has a great influence on manufacturing technology and product form.
With the help of 3D printing technology, it is no longer necessary to design or manufacture expensive molds for manufacturing products, and designers' creativity can be realized directly through 3D printers, which greatly reduces the cost and time.
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3D printing is usually realized by a material printer using digital technology. It is often used in mold manufacturing, industrial design and other fields to make models, and then gradually used in the direct manufacturing of some products. Parts already printed with this technology.
This technology has been applied to jewelry, footwear, industrial design, architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), automobile, aerospace, dentistry and medical industry, education, geographic information system, civil engineering, guns and other fields.
20 19 65438+ 10/4, the University of California, San Diego, for the first time, manufactured a spinal cord scaffold imitating the structure of the central nervous system, which successfully helped rats recover their motor function.
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