ABSTRACT
This chapter presents examples of projects by the author and his students at Loyola Marymount University in which the common applications of 3DP are explored. These projects include the application of 3DP with a bottle opener, a flower vase, the modeling of human faces, and the recreation of human fingers. From the basics of creating everyday objects like a bottle opener or a flower vase to more complex medical applications like facial reconstruction and the recreation of a human hand, there are various different fields that utilize 3DP. Most of these applications follow the same process of choosing a model, recreating the model in modeling software (SolidWorks), saving the file as a stereolithography (STL) file, printing the object on a 3D printer, and finally postprocessing to improve appearance. Although there are small differences in each individual project, most common applications for 3DP follow this basic five-step procedure.
