Materialise introduces dental module for additive manufacturing software

The newest module for Magics software will allow dental laboratories to optimize their additive manufacturing workflows, says 3D printing solutions provider Materialise.

“3D printing has become well-established within dentistry,” said a Materialise representative. “Today, many dental labs have their own printers and [daily] create custom parts for dental restoration. Their next goal is optimizing the workflow so dental specialists can reduce the amount of time spent manually preparing designs to be printed.”

After uploading a dental CAD design to the platform, the user simply clicks a button and the software automates all the required printing preparation steps, such as labeling, nesting, and generating support structures. Tasks that could take hours to complete manually are finalized within a couple of minutes. The module also provides advanced control over processing steps through customizable processing profiles.