The Centre for Applied Reconstructive Technologies in Surgery (CARTIS) recently created a digitally-based method of designing and fabricating a patient-specific orbital floor and rim implant for a patient who had a rare form of facial cleft affecting her eye socket. The right eye was non-seeing, immobile, turned inwards, and more than 1 cm lower than…
Mass Customization Gets its Body On
By Kevin Atkins, Corporate Applications Engineer, Sensable, Wilmington, Mass. Reprint Info >> Sculptural CAD is increasingly used to help create implants and surgical devices. A key driver behind mass customization for medical products has been the recent availability of digital tools that effectively enable product design of the organic shapes found in the human body.…
SensAble’s FreeForm® 3D Modeling System Helps Create Trophy for Tiger’s Tournament
As golf’s AT&T National Hosted by Tiger Woods event gets underway in Bethesda, Maryland this week, SensAble Technologies, Inc® announced that the tournament trophy was created by its customer, noted golf sculptor Malcolm DeMille, using the SensAble FreeForm® 3D modeling system. Presented to the tournament’s champion each year, the trophy is an intricate, scale version…