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DJO Optimizes Hip Implant With Image-Based Population Analysis

Sebastian De Boodt
July 18, 2016
DJO Optimizes Hip Implant With Image-Based Population Analysis

American surgical device company DJO was having challenges prior to the launch of their new implant, the TaperFill™ Hip Stem, a shorter femur stem designed to be inserted through a direct anterior approach hereby sparing the critical posterior soft tissue. The design of the implant proved to be very tricky as it needed to fit closely in the cortical bone to ensure stability. As there was not much room for error, it was difficult to create a design that fit a maximum amount of patients, since every anatomy differs slightly from person to person. DJO optimized the hip with the help of image-based population analysis.

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Could 3D Printing Provide an Alternative to Plaster Casts?

Stephanie Benoit
July 08, 2016
Could 3D Printing Provide an Alternative to Plaster Casts?

Anyone who has ever had a broken arm, sprained ankle or anything that requires wearing a cast undoubtedly remembers how uncomfortable it was. Sure, it was fun to get everyone’s signature on your arm or leg, but that didn’t make up for the itchiness, the rash and the difficulties involved when taking a shower. A bright team of engineers at Michigan Technological University thought there had to be a better solution, and came up with a lightweight, porous, 3D-printed alternative instead.

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Saving Time in Your Medical Image Segmentation Process with Mimics 19

Sjoerd Kolk
June 15, 2016
Saving Time in Your Medical Image Segmentation Process with Mimics 19

When segmenting medical image data, have you ever struggled with separating two bones from each other? Well, you’re not the only one.

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How to Maintain Accurate Bone Geometries in Your FEA Mesh

Dr. Zahra Asgharpour
June 14, 2016
How to Maintain Accurate Bone Geometries in Your FEA Mesh

FEA mesh is the practical application of the finite element method (FEM), nowadays used intensively by engineers and scientists to mathematically model and numerically solve very complex problems in a wide range of applications.

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Meet the Team behind Materialise Mimics inPrint

Stephanie Benoit
June 02, 2016
Meet the Team behind Materialise Mimics inPrint

In this post, we’ll be taking a closer look at the fantastic work done by the Materialise office in Kiev, Ukraine. With a large part of their efforts focused on software development, we spoke to team leader Olga Sholonik about the development of Materialise Mimics inPrint; the go-to software for 3D Printing in hospitals.

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Designing a Patient-Specific 3D-Printed Cast with the Lightweight Structures Module

Todd Pietila
May 27, 2016
Designing a Patient-Specific 3D-Printed Cast with the Lightweight Structures Module

A talented team of engineers at Michigan Technological University has developed a method for creating a patient-specific 3D-printed cast to treat bone fractures of the forearm and wrist. The project leverages Materialise's Lightweight Structures Module which was used to create the high porosity lattice structure of the casts. These were then 3D printed at Materialise’s production facilities for human testing.

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Setting Sail for the Seven Provinces: Materialise 3D Prints a Ship Replica

Stephanie Benoit
May 25, 2016
Setting Sail for the Seven Provinces: Materialise 3D-Prints a Ship Replica

Rotterdam-based design studio, & designshop, received a unique request. Founded by Elwin and Nynke van der Hoek, the design studio and shop was tasked with recreating the magnificent Seven Provinces galleon, a 17th century warship anchored in the Rotterdam harbor, on a scale that would just about fit in an office lobby. But building scale replicas of ships is a long, labor-intensive project, and doing so by hand can take up to a year and a half — whereas they had only seven months. The answer? 3D Printing! The result is this magnificent 1.5-meter-long model, designed by & designshop and printed at Materialise. Meet the Seven Provinces, and its 3D-printed scale replica.

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5 Things You Need to Consider when 3D Printing Wearables

Radhika Dhuru
April 28, 2016
5 Things You Need to Consider when 3D Printing Wearables

Far from its days as a niche technology, 3D Printing now accounts for more than 90% of the world’s in-ear hearing aids: and that’s just one example of how 3D Printing is making waves in the manufacturing sector across diverse industries. At Materialise, we’ve announced five major eyewear manufacturing projects in the past year alone, in addition to several 3D-printed fashion collaborations and other consumer products.

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Unfold at Milan Design Week 2016: When Support Structure Becomes Art

Stephanie Benoit
April 18, 2016
Unfold at Milan Design Week 2016: When Support Structure Becomes Art

Antwerp-based design studio Unfold is constantly pushing the boundaries of how design intersects with modern digital manufacturing. For Milan Design Week 2016, they participated in the Belgian Matters exhibition, curated by Siegrid Demyttenaere for DAMN° magazine, along with 13 other Belgian designers each paired up with a Belgian company. The exhibition is part of a larger framework titled “A Matter of Perception: Tradition & Technology” in the prestigious Palazzo Litta in Milan, Italy. The aim of the exhibition was to showcase how modern technology could be used to enhance and transform traditional furniture design, and together with Unfold, Materialise helped to make their project Skafaldo a reality.

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Cyborgs and Fossilized Monsters: Nick Ervinck’s 3D Printed Sculptures

Stephanie Benoit
April 04, 2016
Cyborgs and Fossilized Monsters: Nick Ervinck’s 3D Printed Sculptures

Belgian artist Nick Ervinck explores the boundaries between the physical and the imaginary, the traditional and the modern, architecture and sculpture. Constantly pushing the frontiers on what is spatially possible, he is a pioneer in the use of 3D Printing in art. Although we first collaborated with him in 2008 for his artwork GNIURKS_S, Materialise had the honor of collaborating with him again for his two newest creations: LAPIRSUB and NOITALS.

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