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Content
Content. 1
7 General introduction 4
Interface 5
Object Tree and entities. 6
Quick search operations. 7
View orientation in the Work Area. 8
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Video tutorials 3-matic
Scripting
/ Chapter 1: Import/Export.
Exercise 1. Import STLs
Exercise 2. Import a Mimics project file. 10
Exercise 3. Import a CAD file of a heart valve. 10
Exercise 4: Import and clean-up of cushion panel fil . 1
Introduction to the point cloud functionality
Task 1: Point cloud meshing
Task 2: Scan fixing .
Exercise 5: Export 3D POF.
/ Chapter 2: Basic.
Exercise 1: Align the heart valve with the aorta.
/ Chapter 3: Analyze.
Exercise 1. Wall Thickness Analysis
Exercise 2. Curvature Analysis
Exercise 3. Part Comparison Analysis.
Exercise 4. Measure and analyze using fitted primitives.
/ Chapter 4: Design.
Exercise 1. Give the aorta a thickness for additive manufacturing
Exercise 2. Aneurysm design
Exercise 3. Designing an acetabular cup
Exercise 4: Creating a Custom Cardiovascular Benchtop Model
Task 1. Clean and Optimize the Geometry
Task 2. Add a Thickness and Trim the Model.
Task 3, Design Base and Supports
Task 4. Add a flange to the benchtop model
Task 5. Apply Finishing Touches and Export
Exercise 5. Design of a patient-specific cranial plate
Task 1. Indicate the outline of the gap.
Task 2. Mirror the healthy geometry and create a guiding line ..
Task 3. Creation of the cranial plate
Task 4. Removing the undercuts..
Task 5. Creating a smooth edge and chamfered edge .
Task 6. Creating suture holes.
Exercise 6: Design changes and labeling on a bottle.
Task 1: Creating a sketch and adding design changes
Task 2: Converting the 2D sketch design to a 3D par
Task 3: Labeling ..
Exercise 7: Cooling channel design on a mold.
Task 1: Creating a hollow part.
Task 2: Creation of centerline curves.
Task 3: Distance to curve chec!
Task 4: Creating a cooling channel
/ Chapter 5: Remesh.
Basic explanation of the finite element method.
Element quality.
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Typical Remesh workflow 79
Tips and tricks 80
Exercise 1. Introduction to the workfiow.. 80
Task 1. Import and visualize the mesh... son .
Task 2. Reduce the details of the anatomical part a1
Task 3. Remesh the surface elements.
Task 4, Generate the volume mesh
Task 5. Material assignment.
Exercise 2. Inspect mesh quality.
Task 1. Inspect the quality of the surface mesh.
Task 2. Remesh the surface elements...
‘Task 3, Further improve the mesh by Smoothing.
Task 4. Generate a Tet10 volume mesh
Task 5. Inspect the quality of the volume mesh .
Exercise 3. Local mesh refinement
Task 1, Surface refinement
Task 2. Volume refinement.
Exercise 4. Gradient Remesh
Exercise 5. Creating a Midplane mesh
‘Non-manifold Assembly.
Exercise 6. Creating Non-manifold Assembly for anatomical parts 101
Task 1. Generate Non-manifold Assembly in Mimics.
‘Task 2, Reduce details and Remesh the surface elements.
Task 3. Create volume mesh.
Task 4. Material assignment.
Exercise 7. Creating Non-manifold Assembly for intersecting parts. 107
Exercise 8. Creating a Non-manifold Assembly with a grid 110
Task 1. Creating the non-manifold assembly
Task 2. Reducing the number of triangles —
Exercise 9. Improving the accuracy of the grid-based method 114
Task 1. Creating the non-manifold assembly
Task 2, Improving the accuracy of the screw
Task 3. Dealing with intersecting triangles
Task 4. Improving the mesh
Task 5. Creating volume mesh and identifying bad volume elements...
Exercise 10. Exporting and importing the mesh into a solver program 124
Task 1. Generating a mesh with material properties .
Task 2. Exporting the mesh to ANSYS® Workbench™
Exporting a file to ANSYS® Workbench” version 14.0 or earlier.
Exporting a file to ABAQUS/CAE™
Exporting a file to COMSOL Multiphysics®
Exporting a file to MSC Patran®.
/ Chapter 6: Texturing
Introduction to the Texturing module.
Exercise 1: Applying a texture on a pedal.
Task 1: Creating UV Map
Task 2: Creating a 2D texture
Task 3: Converting the 2D texture to a 3D texture
Exercise 2: Applying leather texture on a cover model.
Task 1: Creating UV Map... .
Task 2: Applying leather toxture on the UV Map
Task 3: Showing the 3D Preview for the leather textures with offsets
/ Chapter 7: Topology optimization ..
Exercise 1: Import and clean-up of raw data
Task 1: Surface manipulation of raw topology data
Task 2: Redesign and export of CAD-like entities.
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/ Chapter 8: Lattice .
Exercise 1: Creating a porous bone prosthesis. 150
Task 1: Prepare femur prosthesis
Task 2: Create porous structure se .
Task 3: Convert lattice to organic mesh 153
Exercise 2: Design of a fiter using lattice structures 154
Task 1: Creating a quad based lattice
Task 2: Creating a unit cell based lattice...
Task 3: Make graph connections..
Task 4; Assign graph properties
‘Task 5: Create regular mesh from graphs (Optional).
/ Chapter 9: Reverse Engineering... .
Exercise 1: Anatomical Reverse Engineering 162
Exercise 2: CAD link. 163
/ Chapter 10: Stastical Shape Model. 165
General introduction 165
Tips and tricks . 165
Exercise 1: Creating a statistical shape model from the femur. 166
‘Task 1: Warp the original parts using a template part.
‘Task 2: Create a statistical shape model and recreate a pat
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| General introduction
Materialise 3-matic is unique software that combines CAD tools with pre-processing (meshing)
capabilities. To do so, it works on triangulated (STL) files.
For this reason, it is extremely suitable for organie/freeform 3D data, like the anatomical data coming
from the segmentation of medical images (from Materialise Mimics). We call it Anatomical CAD.
Import your anatomical data in Materialise 3-matic to start doing real Engineering on Anatomy, Ike
thorough 3D measurements and analyses, design an implant or surgical guide within a research context,
‘or prepare the mesh for finite element modeling.
Using powerful tools, 3-matic also allows users to perform topology optimization clean up, design and
combine different types of lattice structures, create 3D textures and much more. In a combination with
Materialise build processors, 3+matic gives a possibility to slice even very complex lattice structures by
consuming much less amount of memory. Since Materialise 3-matic can import CAD data, but also do
reverse engineering of anatomical to CAD data, itis perfectly complementary to your CAD package.
NOTICE ON INTENDED USE: Materialise 3-matic is not a medical device.
All datasets used in this tutorial are stored in C:\Program Files\Materialise\3-matic 15.0 (x64)\DemoFiles
or in a similar location, depending on the selected destination folder during installation.
From version 10.0 on, Materialise 3-matic remembers for you. This means that when opening an
‘operation page, previously remembered parameter values are available for further use. The below
exercises sometimes refer to the default parameter settings. In order to use these default parameter
settings, the functionality Options > Reset Current Operation Defaults can be used.
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Interface
Open 3-matic to explore its interface.
The Operations Toolbar (1) contains all the functions to modify the paris in your project.
‘The View Toolbar (2) can be used to import, save or change the visualizations of the
models.
The Object Tree (3) provides a structured overview of the parts that are currently open
in 3-matic
The Properties Tab (4) contains three options.
i, Operations: In Operations the parameters for each operation can be filled in
li. Macros: A sequence of operations can be recorded in a macro to repeat
multiple parts in a semi-automated way.
iii, Properties: Some statistics of a part, surface, texture or any other entity can be
viewed in the Properties Tab.
iv. Console: The python-like Console makes it possible to quickly execute/test 3-
matic API functions while creating a script.
Parameters options (5).
i. Expert mode ON — show additional expert options in the operation page. These
‘options will be highlighted in yellow.
ii, Remember parameters ON — entered and applied parameters (except entities)
in most of operations will be kept when starting the same operation next time.
Logger (6) shows information of performed actions as well as notifications, warning and
‘some other additional info.
Quick Search (7) enables the list the appropriate tools with the matching string as the
‘one inserted in the input field
View Orientation Cube (8) shows the current view plane of the Work Area, clic
a different plane will switch the camera to show the selected plane.
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Object Tree and entities
‘The Object Tree provides a structured overview of the parts currently open in 3-matic.
‘+ The Section List (1) makes it possible to look inside your design by using a section on
your part. The Position of the section can be changed in the Propertios Tab. To hide
‘one side of your part, activate the Clip function
+ The Metadata (2) makes it possible to store additional text info (Metadata). It might be
filled automatically by some software or edited manually by user
‘+ The Part information (3) can contain multiple entities (Object Coordinate System,
Metadata, Surfaces, Curves, ...)
+ Entity names can be modified by focusing on the entity and clicking the ‘F2' keyboard
shortcut key.
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Itis possible to right-click on any level and on any entities in the Part Information. A context menu will
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from the list of entities. Right-click on the selected entity to open the context menu.
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Quick search operations
When a short string (characters) is keyed into the input field of the Quick search feature, a list of
suggestions that matches the input string is shown. Clicking on any of this options, will launch the
operation. Disabled features will be disabled in the list of suggestions. The operations are shown based
‘on their respective menu structure, e.g. (Mark (Main Menu), Expand (1* sublevel), Expand by Number
(the final level)
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View orientation in the Work Area
When the mouse is hovered on any of the planes, the plane will be highlighted with the name of the
plane shown on a tooltip. Clicking on this plane will change the camera view to the specified plane.
When the view is on a planar view, hovering the mouse on the plane will show 4 arrows in the 4 sides
of the square. Clicking on this arrows will rotate the view 90 degrees in the specified direction.
To set the view to the Isometric view cli
Video tutorials 3-matic
There are multiple video tutorials of 3-matic, visualizing the steps in several workflows via a combination
of presentation and demonstration.
Video tutorials on non-medical applications are accessible via the Materialise Software Academy:
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For video tutorials on medical applications, visit our Materialise Medical Academy:
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Scripting
3-matic supports Python scripting. The 3-matic Python API makes it possible to script many 3-matic
features. You can write your own Python scripts and call the features from 3-matic. This allows you to
automate your workflows. 3-matic comes with instructions for installing Python and includes a script
editor and a scripting console. More information can be found in the scripting guide. Open 3-matic and
{90 to Help > Scripting Guide.
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/ Chapter 1: Import/Export
Exercise 1. Import STLs
1 Brogen a new 3-matic project.
® click on Import Part, select the STLs of the aorta (Aorta1 and Aorta2) and import them
together. During import, Spit surfaces with an angle of 45°. This will make separate surfaces
of al inlets and outlets.
They are positioned on the same location since they originate from the same dataset. No
registration is necessary.
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Exercise 2. Import a Mimics project file
1. Open 3-matic. In the File menu, select Import Part and browse to the Demofiles folder in
the installation folder and select the ‘Finished [Link]" for the parts in the file to be
imported. The 3D objects are loaded into your 3-matic project.
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Exercise 3. Import a CAD file of a heart valve
In case you want to combine the STL model of the aorta with a heart valve design from a CAD package,
you can import the IGESS fie of this valve. The valve used in this exercise is NOT a real heart vaive; itis,
tedesigned to resemble a common valve
The IGES file is triangulated upon import.
1. Goto File - Import Part (Ctrl + L) and browse for heart [Link] file.
2. Inthe Import dialog, enable Fix normals and Stitch automatic.
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Exercise 4: Import and clean-up of cushion panel file
Introduction to the point cloud functionality
‘The point cloud functionality makes it possible to modify point clouds in 3-matic and to convert them to
STL files. This includes the import & export of different point cloud formats. Furthermore a range of
tools is available to modify point clouds by marking, sub sampling, noise reduction, spliting... to
improve the quality of the point cloud,
Special tools are available for registration of multiple point clouds or STLs and to glue different
(overlapping) meshes, originating from diferent point clouds, into one solid mesh,
Task 1: Point cloud meshing
1, Goto File > Import Part > DemoFiles > Cushion_Panel.asc. An import dialog box appears.
The default settings are fine and can be kept. Click OK to import the point cloud. The point
cloud is imported in 3-matic and visualized in the 3D view. The properties of the point cloud
reveal that it consists out of 50474 points.
~ Open the Subsample operation from the Point Cloud toolbar. This operation reduces
the number of points but also optimizes the point distribution. Select the Cushion_Panel as
Entities and set the Reduce point to (%) parameter to 75. The amount of points is reduced
to 36709.
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create an STL mech rom any selected point cloud. Apply t withthe default settings. As a
result a part called ‘Cushion_Panel’ will be created. Hide the point cloud by highlighting it in
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Typically, borders in a scanned object will never be smooth and accurate. To reconstruct these features,
3-matic offers different fixing possibilities. In this case the circular holes will be refined with the use of
the slot restoration tool.
1. @ coro Fixtoobarand ‘open the Slot Restoration operation, Select one of the circular
bad contours for the operation. By default, the operation will fit a perfect circle. If
the parameters for this outline can stil be changed.
Because the triangles at a border of the scan are typically already noisy and less accurate,
the slot restoration operation offers the possibilty to remove these border triangles via the
Expand hole parameter. Set the Hole fil parameters as shown below.
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Exercise 5: Export 3D PDF
The goal of this exercise is to export a 3D PDF along with measurements, analytical primitives, and
annotations created on the entity. The 3D POF serves as an effective tool for communication of results
with the surgeon. It is possible to personalize the 3D PDF by including a header, footer, or both,
1, File > Open Project > DemoFiles > Mitral [Link]
2, Click on 3D PDF from the Export options under the File menu. Changing the Header and Footer
parameter to Both in the Page Setup section, pens the following operation page.
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3. In the Entities selection box choose all the objects that need to be shown in the exported 3D
PDF from the Object Tree. In this project we would like to show in the 3D PDF the distance
between the Mitral valve and the Papillary muscle of the heart to evaluate the optimal stent size.
The following objects need to be selected as Entities: Mitral valve surface, Mitral valve plane,
Heart, distance measurement and the annotations Mitral valve plane and Papillary muscle.
4, Choose the Output filename and directory by clicking on the path box.
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6. Click on Apply.
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7. Open the resulting 3D PDF.
8. Inthe left panel of the 3D POF the different views are listed, Click on Detailed View to sé
measurements, annotations and analytical primitives created on the exported entity.
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9. When hovering the mouse pointer in the 3D area of the PDF, a toolbar will appear from where
different actions can be performed in the 3D PDF e.g, viewing more details in a cross sectional,
view, adding comments, or making measurements in 3D PDF.
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/ Chapter 2: Basic
Exercise 1: Align the heart valve with the aorta
When importing heart [Link], the valve will not be positioned correctly yet and needs to be aligned to
the aorta. Use the STL file Aorta1 for this exercise.
1, Please check split surfaces box when importing Aortat st fie.
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2, Goto Align and choose Are to Arc Align.
3, Fit an Arc on the aorta inlet as the fixed entity, Fit another Ar on the outer surface of the
heart valve as the moving entity. Make sure the arrows are aligned properly, to fit the heart
valve in the right direction
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6. © Goto the Fixtab and choose Project Mesh. Select the inlet surface as entity, Method
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8. To open the inlet, delete or hide the surface.
If you want to prepare this assembly for CFD analysis, the valve still needs to be remeshed and the
nodes should match the connecting nodes on the aorta.
/ Chapter 3: Analyze
Exercise 1. Wall Thickness Analysis
To analyze the thickness of the cortical bone, you can run a wall thickness analysis.
1. Import [Link] from Demo Files. Make sure only the Cortical part is shown in
the Work Area,
BP nne Analyze tab, click on the Create Wall Thickness Analysis button and select Cortical
as Entity. Set the Maximum Wall Thickness to 10.0 mm. A histogram with the wall thickness,
distribution will be displayed and a range of colors will be visualized on the Cortical 3D object.
The green color represents the thinner structures, while the red color corresponds to the thicker
regions. Feel free to play with the slider thresholds for better visualization.
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3. Goto the Export options under the File menu and select Analysis to export the created wall
thickness analysis. Choose the Cortical [Wall Thickness Analysis] from the Object Tree as
Entities and click on Output Directory to choose the folder where the analysis will be
‘exported, Click apply to export the analysis.
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Exercise 2. Curvature Analysis
For the purpose of guide design, it might be interesting to analyze the curvature of the bone. This
exercise also uses the [Link] data,
1. © inne Anatyze tab, select the Create Curvature Analysis button and select the Femur
Choose Maximum curvature as Analysis Type, Noisy as Mesh Type and set the Fitting
radius to 6.0 mm. Apply the operation.
Abistogram with the curvature distribution is displayed and the 3D object is represented in
a range of colors. The blue color represents the regions with local convexity, while the red
color corresponds to areas of concavity.
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Exercise 3. Part Comparison Analysis
1, Import Aorta1 and Aorta? from the Demo Files and Split surfaces with 45° (refer to Chapter,
1: Import ~ Exercise 1)
2. Goto the Analyze tab to Create a Part Comparison Analysis to compare the aorta at
systole (Aorta2) with the aorta at diastole (Aorta).
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1, D co back o the femur imported forthe curvature analysis. Ciek on the Rectangular
‘Mark button in the Mark tab and select the femur head of the Femur object. To make sure
that the triangles are marked through the femur head, hold the SHIFT button whilst selecting
the femur head.
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5. 7 In the Design tab, select the Create Line function, Choose the Fit ruled surface
direction as the Method and the marked triangles as Fitting entities.
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6. -~ Make the resulting line longer, by using the Eait Axis function in the Design tab or use
the Interactive edit possibilty via the property page
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8, D sarin femur neck using the Rectangular Mark tool. Make sure you hold the SHIFT
button when you mark the rectangle in the neck,
9. 7 tn the Design tab, select the Create Line function. Choose the Fit ruled surface
direction as the Method and the marked triangles as Fitting entities. Hide the marked
triangles to visualize the created line using Make invisible from the Mark tab
10. 3measure the angle using the Angle measurement from the Measure toolbar. Select the
Line to line Method and indicate the two lines. Click on Apply. Hide the femur first so that
You can select the lines more easiy.
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Exercise 1. Give the aorta a thickness for additive manufacturing
1, Import Aortat from Demo Files into 3-matic with Split Surfaces checked ON (45°
2. Separate the inlet and outlet surfaces to another part, so the aorta only consists of the outer
surface. Select in the object tree all the surfaces which needs to be separate and right-click
‘on them to create a new part.
3. & selecttne (Unit) Offset from the Design toolbar. Select the Aorta part as ently and
select Solid. A thickness of 1 mm is good for building. The picture is an example of this
aorta built on an Objet machine.
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Exercise 2. Aneurysm design
To investigate the influence of aortic aneurysms with different sizes and shapes on blood flow or
pressure, it can be interesting to be able to ‘design’ different aneurysms.
1. [ll import Aorta from Demo Files. Go tothe Finish tab and select Push and Pull. Set the
Push and pull distance to 5.0 mm and the Morphing diameter to 40.0 mm. Hold CTRL to
pull on a part of the surface of the descending aorta, Rotate the aorta to pull on all sides.
>.
Parameters
Push and pull stance 5.0000
Morphing diameter 40.0000
Treat as solid a
Here you see an example of a CFD analysis of blood pressure on a similar aorta:
Pressure
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Exercise 3. Designing an acetabular cup
In this exercise we will use forward engineering to design a customized acetabular implant, using patient
data. This way, its possible to create a prosthesis based on the anatomy which can be used in your
R&D process. In the image below you see an example of such an implant. In this exercise, we will only
design one flange, but of course, the method can be copied for the other flanges.
41. Import [Link] from Demo Files (refer to Chapter 1: Import - Exercise 2).
2. First, we will make a copy of the pelvic bone, therefore select the Pelvis in the Object Tree.
right-click and from the context menu select Duplicate. To make any of the original 3D
models invisible, right-click and select Hide from the context menu.
3. F we wit now simplify the Pelvis_duplicate. Select the Create Curve function in the
Curve tab, choose as Curve creation method the Attached Curve option and enable Split
surfaces. Now draw a curve over the contour of the acetabulum,
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4, Select the inscribed surface and select Delete from the context menu. If itis not possible to
select the surface, make sure the curve is closed (Curve > Close Curve) and use Curve >
Split Surfaces by Curves to separate the surface first
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5. © From the Design tab, select the Surface Construction tool. Create a surface based
on the created curve.
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6 5S We will use the Analytical Sphere we have fitted onto the femur head during the
Analyze exercise (Chapter 3 Exercise 4), as a start for the design of the acetabular cup. In
the Design tab, click on the Convert Analytical Primitive to Part button and select your
sphere,
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7. [BD To give the sphere a thickness, go to the Design tab and click on the Hollow button.
Fillin the parameters as indicated below and click on Apply.
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8. 4) tocutthe hallow sphere we wil ereate a plane. n the Design (or Analyze) tab, select
the Create Datum Plane button. Select Fit plane and select the created surface in the
Pelvis_duplicate as Fitting Entity.
9. §® you can stil adust the positon of the Datum Plane. in the Align tab, select the
Translate/Rotate, choose the Object coordinate system and reposition the plane to the
borders of the acetabular cavity. Make sure the plane does not intersect with the edges of
the acetabulum.
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10, B carta naow sper ihe Daun Pane and dle os pat This fishes
the design of the acetabular cup. In the next steps, we will add a flange to the design.
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Entity, select the flat surface of the sphere that resulted from the Cut operation,
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12, E import ne outin of hepatic Bone int the sketch and project the contours of the
acetabular cup onto the Sketch. Go to Sketch > Import > Import References, for Projection
select both the Contours from the sphere, and for Outline select the duplicated pelvis
‘Switch to the sketch work area to get a better view of the sketch.
13, A create a ine sequence onthe schium bone. Gtk on the Create Line action buton
in the Sketch tab and select Line sequence. Draw three line segments and press the Escape
key to finish.
P
14, add constraints to the line segments, Select the two opposite ine segments and click
con the Paral! button,
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15," Seta distance of 7.0 mm between the two parallel line segments.
2
Set a length of 15.0 mm for each of the two parallel line segments,
17, QL select the Sketch > Add Sketch Enity > Circle Are (3 Points). Indicate the
‘extremities of the line segments and the radius of the arc,
18, © Make sure each ofthe line segments is tangent to the arc. Select one of the parallel
line segment and the circle arc, then select Sketch > Add Constraint > Tangent.
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12, © we wir now projet he 20 Nange onthe 30 surfaces rom the Cue ab select
the Project Curve tool. The Entity wil be the Sketch-001 and the Target Entity will be the
Pelvis_duplicate 3D object.
We will project according to the normal of the sketch. Highlight the direction parameter, then
expand the sketch, expand the Object Coordinate System and select the Z-axis of the
‘Sketch. If in the preview, the direction arrows are pointing away from the pelvis, tip the
direction by clicking on the toggle direction button. Ensure to check ON the ‘Create surface
sets’ checkbox. Click on Apply to finish the operation.
20. Merge the surfaces resulting from the projection and separate a copy of the surface to a
new part. Rename it to Flange.
NOTE: The different surfaces are easily selectable as they are separated in a surface set.
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21. B srove tne sutace (Design > Move Surface ofthe Flange object over 1.0 mm to give
ita thickness.
22, Ss To attach the flange to the acetabular cup select the Local Boolean operation from
the Design tab. Select the flange as Entity 1 and the outer surface of the sphere as Entity
2. Using the default Local Boolean Parameters the acetabular cup and the flange will be
united
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23. We will use a predefined screw to create the fixation holes. Go to File - Import Part and
choose STL, Select [Link],
24, OF From te Align ta select interactive Positioning. nthe Work Area select he screw a8
Active object and for the Coordinate system, select the Object coordinate system. You can
now drag the screw over the surface of the flange. To create multiple holes, duplicate the
screw and use the Interactive Positioning tool to position them,
25, D to subtract he screws from the flange, go tothe Design tab and select Boolean
Subtraction. Select the Sphere with thickness as Entity and the screws as Subtraction
Entities. Click on Apply.
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Exercise 4: Creating a Custom Cardiovascular Benchtop Model
‘One growing application in the cardiovascular market is the ability to design and print a benchtop model.
Benchtop models are helpful for many applications including stent placement research and flow studies.
The following exercise will explain the steps necessary to create such a model and is summarized in
the table below.
@__| Add flange to the
benchtop model
5. | Finishing touches
Task | Description Tlustration ‘Samatie functionality
T&Z | Prepare model @ Woalemoatiing
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Task 1. Clean and Optimize the Geometry
1. B® Import the [Link]! file into 3-matic by clicking File > Import Part. The file is located in the
DemoFiles folder.
2, ® smooth any rough areas on the surface of the model using the Local Smoothing tool found
under the Finish Menu. Click and drag to apply the Local Smoothing.
Task 2. Add a Thickness and Trim the Model
1. @ create a shelled structure using the Hollow operation found under the Design Menu. The
vessel wall will be created at 2 mm thick. Press Apply to create the Hollow.
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2. €¥ Use tne Trim too (Finish menu) to cut the ends of of the inlets and outlets of the aorta,
Create a box around the ends of the inlets and outlets and press apply to perform the Trim
Repeat this action for all the remaining in- and outlets,
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Task 3. Design Base and Supports
1, 4 Create a New Sketch, found under the Sketch tab, using the ‘Through 1 point, parallel to
‘a plane’ method. The ‘Through 1 point, parallel to a plan’ option is found under the Method tab.
As the parallel plane, select the ZX-plane of the world coordinate system. Choose a point on
the posterior side of the aneurysm.
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2, 1h rransiat this ketch normal tothe Y-axis using the Translate function under the Align Tab,
Move the sketching plane 30 mm so itis not intersecting the anatomy at any point.
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‘Use Import References under the Sketch tab to Import the outline of the aorta onto the
sketch. This will serve as a guide to draw the profile of the base.
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4. 4" Using create Line Sequence inthe Sketch toolbar, draw a profeofthe base inthe Sketch
tab, Feel free to be creative, but be sure that it completely contains the aorta profile within the
base.
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5, © To sive the base thickness, Extrude the sketch in one directions 6 mm (Design menu). The
result should then have a 6 mm thick base, Hide the Sketch afterward,
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6, "Snow, connections wi be designed t atch the bas othe ana (Design > Creat
Connections). Use the Automatic method to generate the cylinders. Indicate acceptable
boundaries for the minimum and maximum radios.
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To add additional connections, use the manual method in the Create Connections operation.
While adding connections, itis possible to interactively edit them.
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To edit a created connection interactively, open the property page and select Interactive edi.
To allow easy editing, make the aorta transparent.
+ Gylinder “Operations
E Properties
Length 683395,
Radius 39039)
Point poser 2125578 1624490
Colat
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1. 7b use comot Analytical Primitive to Part
‘connection to parts.
/ Gylinder Convert Analytical Primitive to Part
the Design Menu) to convert the current
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Task 4. Add a flange to the benchtop mode!
1, Import the flange STL in the project (File -> Import Part -> Flange). Use the default options
for the import and click OK to continue.
2. “The flange must be attached to the superior side of the AAA model. To first place the flange
at the right position, Arc to Arc Align from the Align Menu can be used. Select the inner contour
ofthe superior end of the AAA madel for Are on fixed ently and the inner contour of the flange
{at the side of the thin band) as Arc on moving entity. To positon the flange correctly, choose
Method Coincident face to face (the arrows in the arcs will help to verify how the flange will be
positioned). Press Apply.
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Params
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3. 9 The flange is now placed against the AAA model. To make a nice transition between the
‘AMA model and the flange, there must be a gap between the two parts to make the connection,
With Interactive Translate (Align menu shortcut key: T) the flange can be translated in the Zs
direction (use Object coordinate system) for approximately 30 mm, =
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4, @ with ine Loft operation from the Design Menu the flange can be attached to the AAA model
and will give a smooth result. In the operation page choose Type Loft with thickness using
surface and select the side surfaces of the two parts as entities, Leave the Weight 1 and 2 on
default (exact values can be different depending on the distance between the flange and model)
and select the option Merge.
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Task 5. Apply Finishing Touches and Export
1. & Puta logo on the top of the vessel using Quick Label in the Finish Menu. Choose method
Drawing and Import DXF file ‘Logo_Materialise dxf. Adjust the scale so that the logo fits on the
vessel. Choose a Depth of 1 mm.
2, EBuse the Fillet tool under the Finish menu to smooth the upper contour of the base. Use a
radius oft rim,
/ Contour Fillet
& Selection
Enetes
5 Fillet parameters
Redus 119000
Tolerance 90100
3, Add any other finishing touches to the part including final Local Smoothing, found under the
Finish tab.
4. Export the model as STL file (File > Export > STL).
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Exercise 5. Design of a patient-specific cranial plate
This exercise explains how to create a patient-specific cranial plate in Materialise 3-matic and involves
6 main steps, as outlined in the table below.
Task |Description Mlustration 34matic functionality
1 [Prepare the skull model and
F Create Cuve
define the outline of the gap
9 Create Curvature
Analysis
‘F Edit Curve (optional)
2 |Mirror the healthy geometry to ‘Sketch
create a guiding curve (optional)
3 _[Oreate the cranial plate wih a
Variable thickness ®
&
Mirror
Translate/Rotate
Interactive Translate
Interactive Rotate
Create Spline
‘Surface Construction
ef @ ase
Variable Offset
+ Uniform Offset
es s*
Boolean Subtraction
4 [Remove undercuts Undercut Removal
5 [Finish the cranial plate by
/smoothing and chamfering the
ledges
iF Smooth Edge
[@ Chamfer Edge
6 Create suture holes © -Create Cylinder
@ Create lsocurves
lee Create UV map
2G Uv Based
Rectangular Pattern
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Task 1. Indicate the outline of the gap
Before creating the outline for the cranial plate, the skull first needs to be smooth enough. A Wrap and
‘Smooth operation (Fix toolbar) will take care of that. A Reduce operation will be applied first, to reduce
the number of triangles, making the model easier to work with.
1. B open the Project sku. mxp.
2. ® reduce (Fx menu) the numberof tiangles. Apply the default settings ofthe Reduce
feature, To visualize the triangles, the View > Shading Modes functionality can be used
(SHIFT + F3 to quickly enable the triangle edges).
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3. ® smooth he skal wth detauk parameters (Fix menu)
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Now, the outline of the gap needs to be indicated. By doing this, we can use this outline in a further
stage to fll the gap using the Surface Construction operation in the Design menu (or the Create
Cranioplasty Prosthesis in the Plate menu). Curve operations will be used to trace the outline.
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s. > setectine crest Cure operation nthe Cure tooba and make sure you select ihe Cue
creation method as Smooth curve, as shown in the figure below. Check the boxes for Attract
‘curve and Attach curve, Create a curve around the gap on the wrapped skull.
Itis important to define the curve close to the defect, but in a low curvature area, so that,
tangency is maintained between the skull and the implant.
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To get a good curve, place the points close enough to each other in high curvature areas.
6. ©? Toassist with identifying areas of high tangency, the Analyze > Create Curvature Analysis
tool can be used. This will project a colour map of the surface curvature on the skull model. This
colour map can be adjusted by adapting the values of the histogram range.
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The analysis can be hidden via the context menu of the analysis in the Object Tree.
7, ©The curve can be closed withthe Close Curve Operation ifthe curve isnot yet closed
(can be checked in Properties)
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8. F wnen tne curve is not completely according to expectation, the Edt Curve tool can be
used
mp SERRE He
Click on a point on the curve you want to move, a green dot appears. Now you can adjust the
influence distance to limit the area in which the curve can be moved. Now, drag the green
point to the new location and choose Apply to finish the editing operation.
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Task 2. Mirror the healthy geometry and create a guiding line
This step is an optional step in the creation of the cranial plate. Guiding lines can be used for the surface
construction operation to “guide” the new surface, This allows you to create a prosthesis that fits
perfectly in the skull and results in a smooth skull-prosthesis transition.
1. FF First a sketch willbe positioned within the sagittal plane. In the Sketch toolbar, select the
New Sketch operation, Select the Midplane Method and indicate two anatomical landmark
points, such that the sketch will be positioned in the sagittal plane,
Rename the Sketch to ‘Sketch_Sagitfal’ The size of the sketch can be adjusted in the
properties by changing the parameters Cell size and Cells count (e.9.100).
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The standard views like front, left and top can be useful during the positioning of the plane.
These views can be found inthe lett toolbar © ~
3. AL create a mirrored copy of the anatomy using Align > Miorand use the created sketch as
Mirror plane. Make sure the option Copy is checked ON.
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Rename the mirrored part to ‘Skull_Mirrored’
4. Use Translate/Rotate to fine tune the position of the reference (mirrored) skull.
5, Duplicate ‘Sketch_Sagittal’ and rename the entity to ‘Sketch_Corona’.
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