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/ Content
/ Content ............................................................................................................... 1
/ Introduction to 3-matic Research .................................................................... 2
/ Chapter 1: Import .............................................................................................. 3
Exercise 1. Import STLs ............................................................................................... 3
Exercise 2. Import a Mimics project file .......................................................................... 4
Exercise 3. Import a CAD file of a heart valve ................................................................ 4
/ Chapter 2: Basic ................................................................................................ 5
Exercise 1: Align the heart valve with the aorta.............................................................. 5
/ Chapter 3: Analyze ............................................................................................ 8
Exercise 1. Wall Thickness Analysis .............................................................................. 8
Exercise 2. Curvature Analysis ...................................................................................... 9
Exercise 3. Measure and analyze using fitted primitives ...............................................10
Exercise 4. Comparison analysis ..................................................................................13
/ Chapter 4: Design ............................................................................................ 14
Exercise 1. Give the aorta a wall thickness for RP ........................................................14
Exercise 2. Aneurysm design .......................................................................................16
Exercise 3. Designing an acetabular cup ......................................................................17
Exercise 4: Creating a Custom Cardiovascular Benchtop Model ..................................25
Task 1. Clean and Optimize the Geometry .............................................................................. 25
Task 2. Add a Thickness and Trim the Model .......................................................................... 25
Task 3. Design Base and Supports .......................................................................................... 26
Task 4. Apply Finishing Touches and Export ........................................................................... 29
Exercise 5. Design of a patient specific cranial plate.....................................................31
Task 1. Indicate the outline of the gap ...................................................................................... 31
Task 2. Mirror the healthy geometry and create a guiding line ................................................ 33
Task 3. Creation of the cranioplasty prosthesis ....................................................................... 35
Task 4. Removing the undercuts .............................................................................................. 35
Task 5. Creating a smooth edge and chamfered edge ............................................................ 36
/ Chapter 5: Remesh .......................................................................................... 38
Exercise 1. Remeshing .................................................................................................38
Exercise 2. Create Volume Mesh..................................................................................42
Exercise 3. Optimize the mesh .....................................................................................43
/ Chapter 6: Export ............................................................................................ 45
Exercise 1: Anatomical Reverse Engineering ...............................................................45
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/ Introduction to 3-matic Research
3-matic Research is unique software that combines CAD tools with pre-processing (meshing)
capabilities. To do so, it works on triangulated (STL) files and as such it is extremely suitable for
organic/freeform 3D data, like the anatomical data coming from the segmentation of medical images
(from Mimics). We call it Anatomical CAD.
Import your anatomical data in 3-matic Research to start doing real Engineering on Anatomy, like
thorough 3D measurements and analyses, design an implant or surgical guide, or prepare the mesh
for finite element modeling.
Since 3-matic Research can import CAD data, but also do reverse engineering of anatomical data to
CAD data, it is perfectly complementary to your CAD package.
NOTICE ON INTENDED USE: 3-matic Research is intended for use as a software for computer
assisted design and engineering in the field of biomedical research. 3-matic Research must not be
used, and is not intended to be used, for the design or manufacturing of medical devices of any kind.
Usage of the software signifies your acceptance of the above.
Copyright 2014 Materialise NV
Tutorial 3-matic Research 4/2014, L-10121 Revision 1

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/ Chapter 1: Import
Exercise 1. Import STLs
1. Open a new 3-matic Research project.
Click on Import part. Select the STLs of the aorta (Aorta1 and Aorta2) and import
them together. During import, split surfaces with an angle of 45°. This will make separate
surfaces of all 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 Research. In the File menu, select Import part and browse to
C:\MedData\InnovationCourse\FinishedFemur.mcs. The 3D objects and CAD files are
loaded into your 3-matic Research project.
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 IGES file of this valve. The valve used in this exercise is NOT a real heart
valve; it is redesigned to resemble a common valve.
The IGES file is triangulated upon import.

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1. Go to File – Import Part (Ctrl + L) and browse for ‘heart valve.igs’ file.
2. In the Import dialog, enable Fix Normals and Automatic stitching.
/ Chapter 2: Basic
Exercise 1: Align the heart valve with the aorta
Upon import heart valve.igs, the valve will not be positioned correctly yet and needs to be aligned to
the aorta1. Use the Aorta 1 for this exercise.
1. Go to Align and choose Arc to Arc Align.
2. Fit an Arc on the aorta inlet as the fixed entity. Fit another Arc on the outer surface of the
heart valve as the moving entity. Make sure the arrows are aligned properly, to fit the
heartvalve in the right direction.
3. Choose Coincident or Coincident face to face, depending on the direction of the arrows.
4. Use Interactive Translate to finetune the positioning if necessary. Select the Object
coordinate system to translate.

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Now we need to virtually attach the aorta to the valve. Therefore we will modify the aorta inlet
to fit on the heart valve.
5. Move the separated surfaces back to the Aorta part. Drag and drop the surfaces in the
active scene.
6. Go to the Fix tab and choose Project Mesh. Select the inlet surface as entity. Method
is On Selection. As target entity select the outer surface of the valve.

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7. Apply and the result should look like this:
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.

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/ 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 Finished Femur.mcs.
2. In the Analyze tab, click on the Create Wall Thickness Analysis button and select
Cortical as Entity. Set the Maximum Wall Thickness to 10.0mm. A histogram with the wall
thickness distribution will be displayed and a range of colors will be applied 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.
3. Try to measure the wall thickness locally.

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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.
1. Select the Create Curvature Analysis button and select the Femur. Choose
Maximum curvature as Analysis type, Noise as Mesh type and set the Fitting radius to
6.0mm. Apply the operation.
A histogram 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. Measure and analyze using fitted primitives
1. Click 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.
2. In the Analyze (or Design) tab, select the Create Analytical Sphere function.
3. Click on Mark > Unmark All.
4. Click on the Rectangular Mark button in the Mark tab and select the femur shaft of the
Femur object. Hold the SHIFT button to mark the triangles through the object.

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5. In the Analyze (or Design) tab, select the Create Line function. Choose the Fit ruled
surface direction as the Method and the marked triangles as Fitting entities.
6. Make resulting line longer, by using the Prolong line function in the Analyze or Design
tab.
7. Click on Mark > Unmark All.

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8. Mark the femur neck of the Remeshed_Femur object using the Rectangular Mark tool.
Make sure you hold the SHIFT button when you mark the rectangle in the neck.
9. In the Analyze (or Design) tab, select the Create Line function. Choose the Fit ruled
surface direction as the Method and the marked triangles as Fitting entities.
10. Measure 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 properly.

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Exercise 4. Comparison analysis

1. Import Aorta1 and Aorta 2 from Demo Files and split surface with 45°. (refer to Import :
Exercise 1)
2. Go to the Analyze tab to create a Part Comparison Analysis to compare the aorta at
systole (Aorta2) with the aorta at diastole (Aorta1).
3. Set the Histogram range from -3mm to 3mm.
4. Try measuring the analysis locally.

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/ Chapter 4: Design
Exercise 1. Give the aorta a wall thickness for RP
1. Import Aorta1 from Demo Files into 3-matic Research with Split Surface check ON.
2. Separate the inlet and outlet surfaces to another part, so the aorta only consists of the
outer surface.
3. Select the Offset from the Design toolbar. Select the Aorta part as entity and select
solid. A thickness of 1 mm is okay 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. Import Aorta2 from Demo Files. Go to the Finish tab and select Push and Pull. Set the
distance to 5mm and the diameter to 40mm. Hold Ctrl to pull on a part of the surface of
the descending aorta. Rotate the aorta to pull on all sides.
Here you see an example of a CFD analysis of blood pressure on a similar aorta:

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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, it is possible to create a perfectly fitting prosthesis. In the image below you see
an example of such an implant that we designed for a patient. In this exercise we will only design one
flange, but of course the method can be copied for the other flanges.
1. Import FinishFemur.mcs (refer to Import: Exercise 2)
2. First we will make a copy of the pelvic bone, therefore select the Pelvis in the database
tree, right-click and from the context menu select Duplicate. To make the original 3D
model invisible, right-click on the Pelvis 3D object and select Hide from the context menu.
3. We will now simplify the Pelvis_duplicated. 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.
5. From the Design tab, select the Surface Construction tool. Create a surface based
on the created curve.
6. We will use the Analytical Sphere, we’ve fitted onto the femur head during the
analyzing exercise, as a start for the design of the acetabular cup. In Design tab,
click on the Convert Analytical Primitive to Part button and select your sphere.

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7. To give the sphere a thickness, go to the Design tab and click on the Hollow button. Fill in
the parameters as indicated below and click on Apply.
8. To cut the hollow sphere we will create a plane. In the Design (or Analyze) tab, select
the Create Datum Plane button. Select the Fit plane and select the created surface as
Fitting Entity.
9. You can still adjust the position of the Datum Plane. In the Align tab, select the
Interactive Translate, choose the Object coordinate system and reposition the plane to the
borders of the acetabular cavity. Make sure the plane doesn’t intersect with the edges of
the acetabulum.

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10. Cut the hollow sphere with the Datum Plane and delete the outside part. In the
Design tab select the Cut operation and select the Sphere. This finishes the design of the
acetabular cup. In the next steps we will add a flange to the design.
11. From the Sketch menu select New Sketch. Select Fit Plane as Method and as Fitting
Entity, select the surface that resulted from the Cut operation.
12.
Import the
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outline of the pelvic bone into the sketch and project the contours of the acetabular cup
onto the Sketch.
13. Create a line sequence on the ischium bone. Click on the Create line action button
in the Sketch tab and select Line sequence. Draw three line segments and press the
Escape key to finish.
14. Add constraints to the line segments. Click on the Parallel button.
15. Set a distance of 7.0mm between the two parallel line segments.
16. Set a length of 15mm for each of the two parallel line segments.
17. Select the Circle Arc (3 Points). Indicate the extremities of the line segments and
the radius of the arc.
18. Make sure each of the line segments is tangent to the arc.

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19. We will now project the 2D flange onto the 3D surfaces. From the Curve tab select
the Project Curve tool. The Entity will be the Sketch001 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
and subsequently select the Z-axis of the Sketch. Flip 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.
21. Move the surface over 1 mm to give it a thickness.

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22. 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 Parameter 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 and
choose STL. Open Screw.stl.
24. From the Align tab select Interactive Positioning. In the Work Area select the screw
and as Method 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. Merge all screws by selecting them and selecting Merge from the context menu.
26. Subtract the screws from the flange. Select the Sphere with thickness as entity and
the merged screws as Subtraction Entity. 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 and flow studies.
The following exercise will explain the steps necessary to create such a model.
Task 1. Clean and Optimize the Geometry
1. Import the AAA.stl file into 3-matic by clicking File  Import Part.
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
2. Use the Trim tool (Finish menu) to cut the endings off of the inlets and outlets of the aorta.
Create a box around the endings of the inlets and outlets and press apply to perform the Trim.

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Task 3. Design Base and Supports
1. 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.
2. Translate this sketch normal to the Y-axis using the Translate function under the Align
Tab. Move the sketching plane 30 mm so it is not intersecting the anatomy at any point.
3. Import the outline of the aorta into the sketch. This will serve as a guide to draw the

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profile of the base.
4. Using Create Line Sequence in the Sketch toolbar, draw a profile of the base in the
Sketch tab. Feel free to be creative, but be sure that it completely contains the aorta profile
within the base.
5. To give the base thickness, Extrude the sketch in both directions 3 mm (Design menu).
The result should then have a 6 mm thick base. Hide the Sketch afterwards.

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6. Now, supports will be designed to attach the base to the aorta by creating and attaching
cylinders to the base and aorta (Design  Create Primitive  Create Cylinder). Use the
“Expert Mode” Option (found at the bottom of the 3-matic window) Extend Length to extend
the cylinders into the AAA. Use the 2 Points method to create the cylinders with one point on
the base and one point on the AAA model. The Extend Length option is used to extend the
length of the cylinder so that it fully intersects with the AAA model. Press F3 to display the
filter options which show possible point selections.
7. Perform a Local Boolean operation (in the Design Menu) to join the base and supports.
The first entity will be the extruded supports, and the second will be the top surface of the
base.

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8. Use a second Local Boolean to join the supports to the model.
Task 4. Apply Finishing Touches and Export
1. Apply text to the top of the vessel using Quick Label in the Finish Menu.

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2. Use the Fillet tool under the Finish menu to smooth the upper contour of the base. Use a
radius of 1 mm.
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
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 ‘wrapping’
and ‘smoothing’ 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. Open the project skull.mxp.
2. Reduce (Fix menu) the number of triangles. Apply the default settings of the Reduce
function.
3. Smooth the skull with default parameters (Fix menu).
4. Wrap the skull with the settings shown in the following screenshot:
Now, the outline of the gap needs to be indicated. By doing this, we can use this outline in a further
stage to fill the gap using the Surface Construction operation in the Design menu or the Create
Cranioplasty Prosthesis (Plate menu). Curve operations will be used to trace the outline.
5. Select the Create Curve operation in the Curve toolbar, and make sure you select the
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.
It is 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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6. To assist with identifying areas of high tangency, the Analyze  Create Curvature Analysis tool
can be used. This will project a color map of the surface curvature on the skull model. Curvature
Analysis is part of the Analysis module of the Mimics Innovation Suite.
7. As you approach the end of the curve, select the Close Curve Operation if the curve is
not already closed (can be checked in Properties).
8. When the curve is not completely according to expectations, the Edit Curve tool can be
used.
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 cranioplasty prosthesis. 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. First a sketch will be positioned within the sagittal plane. In the Sketch toolbar, select the
New Sketch operation. Select the ‘Midplane’ method.
2. Select two anatomical landmark points, such that the sketch will be positioned in the sagittal
plane. Use Interactive Translate/Rotate where necessary to adjust the positioning.

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3. Create a mirrored copy of the anatomy using Align  Mirror.
4. Rotate the Sketch plane 90 degrees, using Align  Interactive Rotate, such that it is
positioned directly within the defect (and becomes a coronal plane). Use Interactive Translate
to assist with the positioning.
5. Import information on the skull, defect curve, and mirror anatomy into the sketch. Use
Sketch  Import to load the skull as an intersection, the mirrored skull as an intersection, and
the defect curve as an intersection.
The intersection of the defect curve will serve as the starting/ending point for the guiding curve.

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6. Use Sketch  Create Spline to sketch out a guiding curve. The goal is to match the
mirrored skull as closely as possible, and use the imported points as beginning and ending
points.
Note:
To improve the shape of the spline, select the Sketch toolbar and use the Select and drag
operation.
Task 3. Creation of the cranioplasty prosthesis

1. Select the Plate  Create Cranioplasty Prosthesis Operation, select the curve as ‘Defect
outline’ and select the sketch as ‘Guiding curve’. Select the desired parameters. Select ‘Apply’.
After creating the prosthesis, post-processing can be done to further improve the design of the
prosthesis. Three possibilities are discussed in the following sections:
1. When a prosthesis with a large thickness is created (e.g. if a ceramic material will be used)
then the created prosthesis will have some ‘undercuts’, that block a good fitting of the
prosthesis.
2. Smoothing the edge to create a smooth contour around the cranial plate surface.
3. Adding a chamfer to the edge to create a smooth bevel around the cranial plate contours.
Task 4. Removing the undercuts

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The fitting direction of the prosthesis is defined as the direction in which the prosthesis should be
taken in or out. Depending on this direction the exact area of blocking material (undercuts) is
determined. This direction can be any direction, depending on the preferences of the user. In this
case we will use a direction that corresponds with the average normal direction of the prosthesis. To
obtain this average normal direction, the surface normal of the upper surface will be selected.
1. Apply the Undercut Removal operation from the Finish menu to remove obstructing
material. The direction will be the surface normal of the upper surface. This can be selected in
the 3D view by clicking on the surface, while the ‘direction’ (in the operation) is highlighted.
Select the following parameters and select ‘Apply’.
Task 5. Creating a smooth edge and chamfered edge
The smooth and chamfer edge operations are found in the Finish toolbar
1. Select Smooth Edge. Select the contour of the cranial plate you want to smoothen.
Choose the influence distance, which will be displayed by a green curve around the contour.
Apply the smooth detail: the more detail, the finer the result, but the longer calculations will
take.
The resulting contour is much smoother:

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2. Select the Chamfer Edge tool. Choose the outer contour you want to chamfer and the
chamfering distance. This results in a smooth bevel around the outer contour as shown in the
last picture below:

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/ Chapter 5: Remesh
Exercise 1. Remeshing
1. Open 3-matic Research. Go to File select open project and browse to Demo Files. Open
Femur.mxp. Check the number of triangles of this part in the properties page
2. Reduce the amount of details in the femur. Click on the Smooth button in the Fix tab
and apply the default parameters.
3. Click on the Reduce button to decrease the number of triangles in the mesh. Change
the Geometrical error to the value indicated below.
4. Open an Inspection Scene by selecting the object in the Scene Tree and clicking on
the Inspection Scene button in the Remesh tab.

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5. In the Quality parameters, adjust the Shape measure to Height/Base (N) and in the
Histogram parameters make sure that Current measure is set to Shape measure. Adjust
the sliding bar in the histogram to 0.4. You can see that a certain percentage of the
triangles in the femur mesh present a quality lower than 0.4.
6. We will remesh the femur based on a shape quality measure of 0.4. To visualize the
triangles with a quality lower than the specified threshold, select the Color low quality
triangles checkbox. The colors of the triangles correspond to the colors of the bars in the
histogram. Therefore, the triangles with a quality lower than 0.1 are colored red and the
triangles with a quality close to 0.4 are colored green. The triangles with a quality higher
than 0.4 present the color of the original part.

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7. The next step in the remesh protocol is the Auto-remesh. Adjust the parameters and
apply the operation. Ignore local remesh parameters.
8. We will now increase the quality threshold to 0.4 and control the maximum edge
length. Apply the Auto-Remesh function adjusting the parameters as indicated below:

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9. The last step is to reduce the number of triangles while preserving the quality.
Before Remeshing After Remeshing

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Exercise 2. Create Volume Mesh

1. Now that you have obtained a surface mesh with a quality adequate for FEA, it is time to
generate a volume mesh. Make sure you are in the 3D View and duplicate your remeshed
femur. Clip the 3D objects using the Standard Section – Y as a clipping plane, adjusting
its position.
2. In the Remesh tab, select the Create Volume Mesh button. Define the Maximum
edge length as 5.0mm and select Aspect ratio (A) as Shape measure, with a Quality
threshold of 25. Click on Apply. Ignore local volume mesh parameterrs.
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Exercise 3. Optimize the mesh
1. We now want to optimize and smooth the aorta surface mesh. Import Aorta3 from
DemoFiles . Click on Smooth in the fixing toolbar. Click on the aorta and select only
the surface. We want to keep the sharp edges at the inlets/outlets. Use the default
settings and apply 3-4 times to make it smooth like the natural aorta.
2. Reduce the amount of triangles on the whole part with the default settings.
3. Set the shape measure to skewness and Auto-remesh the part to a threshold of 0.3,
with a maximum geometrical error of 0.1 and a maximal edge length of 3 mm.
4. Smooth the surface once more with the default settings.
5. Do a final Auto-remesh to a threshold of 0.4

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6. Do a Quality Preserving triangle reduction with the same settings.

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/ Chapter 6: Export
Exercise 1: Anatomical Reverse Engineering
Medical imaging data, like CT or MRI, can be segmented to create accurate, patient-realistic, 3D
models. However, these complex, organic 3D models are generated in the STL file format, and this
format is not welcomed by traditional CAD softwares. Therefore 3-matic Research has an Anatomical
Reverse Engineering module. This module creates solid (C0-continuity) IGES files from your
anatomical models. And what’s even better; it does so completely automatic.
1. Import the Mimics project ‘’FinishFemur.mcs” into 3-matic Research.

2. Go to the Automatic Rectangular Patching option in the Surface toolbar and select Femur into
entities selection box. The part complexity is measured automatically.

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3. Go to the File menu in the main toolbar. Select Export > Iges. Since the patching is already
done, it only needs to be exported to Iges.

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/ Introduction to 3-matic Research

Copyright 2014 Materialise NV

Tutorial 3-matic Research 4/2014, L-10121 Revision 1

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Exercise 1. Import STLs

1. Open a new 3-matic Research project.

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Exercise 2. Import a Mimics project file

Exercise 3. Import a CAD file of a heart valve

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2. In the Import dialog, enable Fix Normals and Automatic stitching.

1. Go to Align and choose Arc to Arc Align.

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7. Apply and the result should look like this:

8. To open the inlet, delete or hide the surface.

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1. Import Finished Femur.mcs.

3. Try to measure the wall thickness locally.

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Exercise 2. Curvature Analysis

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Exercise 3. Measure and analyze using fitted primitives

3. Click on Mark > Unmark All.

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7. Click on Mark > Unmark All.

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Exercise 4. Comparison analysis

3. Set the Histogram range from -3mm to 3mm.

4. Try measuring the analysis locally.

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Exercise 2. Aneurysm design

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Exercise 3. Designing an acetabular cup

1. Import FinishFemur.mcs (refer to Import: Exercise 2)

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21. Move the surface over 1 mm to give it a thickness.

Materialise – Technologielaan 15 – 3001 Leuven – Belgium

Materialise – Technologielaan 15 – 3001 Leuven – Belgium

Materialise – Technologielaan 15 – 3001 Leuven – Belgium

Exercise 4: Creating a Custom Cardiovascular Benchtop Model

Task 1. Clean and Optimize the Geometry

Task 2. Add a Thickness and Trim the Model

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Task 3. Design Base and Supports

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profile of the base.

Materialise – Technologielaan 15 – 3001 Leuven – Belgium

Materialise – Technologielaan 15 – 3001 Leuven – Belgium

8. Use a second Local Boolean to join the supports to the model.

Task 4. Apply Finishing Touches and Export

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4. Export the model as STL file (File  Export  STL).

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Exercise 5. Design of a patient specific cranial plate