Chalky
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Hi guys and girls...
I am a bit of a newb when it comes to all things cad, but I am finding my way steadily. I have a question for those who know much more than myself...
I have the AG system in my lab, which includes 2 motion 2 DNA mills, lab scanner and design software. My lab is specialising in digital splints and we are having fantastic success with what we are doing here. Our current workflow only involves scanning models in the lab at this stage - purely because we haven't had a client with IOS approach us to go down that path... until now! This client is a very, very well known specialist and it would be great for our business to get them on board. They are interested in doing a few trail cases utilising the Trios IOS that they have in their clinic which I am happy to do free of charge, because I am absolutely confident in the work we are putting out. Now here is where the question lies... I don't have the trios inbox on my system just yet - I can't justify the outlay for the software for a trail. there are no trail versions of the inbox available to us so we can't actually do a case or 2 to see how it will work for all of us involved. Is there a way in the 3shape software to turn the received scan file into an STL which can then be on sent to a 3rd party>? I figured that surely if you can send scan files to a lab to have models printed they need to be in STL format to do this right..? Having said this, I am sure if it was possible, 3shape will have found a way to make it impossible! I have colleagues in other labs that I can call upon to do this for me if it is possible.
Any advice, help or direction will be most valuable!
I am a bit of a newb when it comes to all things cad, but I am finding my way steadily. I have a question for those who know much more than myself...
I have the AG system in my lab, which includes 2 motion 2 DNA mills, lab scanner and design software. My lab is specialising in digital splints and we are having fantastic success with what we are doing here. Our current workflow only involves scanning models in the lab at this stage - purely because we haven't had a client with IOS approach us to go down that path... until now! This client is a very, very well known specialist and it would be great for our business to get them on board. They are interested in doing a few trail cases utilising the Trios IOS that they have in their clinic which I am happy to do free of charge, because I am absolutely confident in the work we are putting out. Now here is where the question lies... I don't have the trios inbox on my system just yet - I can't justify the outlay for the software for a trail. there are no trail versions of the inbox available to us so we can't actually do a case or 2 to see how it will work for all of us involved. Is there a way in the 3shape software to turn the received scan file into an STL which can then be on sent to a 3rd party>? I figured that surely if you can send scan files to a lab to have models printed they need to be in STL format to do this right..? Having said this, I am sure if it was possible, 3shape will have found a way to make it impossible! I have colleagues in other labs that I can call upon to do this for me if it is possible.
Any advice, help or direction will be most valuable!