Re: CAD AFO - TracerCAD
Greg Pratt
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Title:
Re: CAD AFO - TracerCAD
Creator:
Greg Pratt
Date:
8/11/1999
Text:
Patrick,
TracerCAD is already being used to create custom AFO's from
measurements, saving and carving the models, then successfully fitting
dozens of patients.
As far as your question about 'changes per instructions', Tracer can be
used to make changes such as flexion, pronation, supination, changing
the angle and position of the heel or arch, forefoot adduction,
inversion, eversion, lengthening or widening the toebox, and much more.
(Some of these features are brand new developments that are being used
clinically in a limited setting and about to be sent to all of our
existing customers for free.) You can also use Tracer to create custom
and very specific buildups, compressions, or other modifications
anywhere on the model, including the plantar surface.
The measurements that TracerCAD uses can be very simple (a few
circumferences and lengths), or very precise (including various AP, ML,
and oblique anatomical measurements). You can use the TracerCAD
hardware to 'click in' the patient's measurements in seconds - and
tracing a 3D shape is certainly possible, but a completely different
subject.
Files can be carved on any PDI, ART, or Benz carver or central
fabrication facility with such a carver. (An existing carver will need
a TracerCAD 'MultiCarve' upgrade to allow the carver to produce AFO's in
addition to other model types.) The carver can produce either a
perfectly formed model or a model that has extra webbing between the
anterior tibia and dorsum of the foot. (The PDI/ART/Benz carver is a
solid 3-axis carver, which keeps the price down.) It can easily carve
plaster or foam, and does not require a rod to run through the center of
an AFO model.
The AFO carving package (MultiCarve) is in limited release right now,
but will be available in about ten more facilties and C-Fab's in a few
days. It will be only AFTER this time that AFO's will produced for
outside customers at these C-Fab's. We are also working at full speed
to accomodate several other orders.
An entry-level solution (software that allows you to create and modify
an AFO, then send it to an AFO-ready central fab) runs a few thousand
dollars, whereas the top-of-the-line, produce-it-all-in-house solution
runs about $80,000 or so for everything.
In a few days, we're going to release a free demonstration program of
these AFO features. If you'd like, I can send you a copy - just drop me
an e-mail.
I hope this answers your questions. If you have any more, you can
contact me at <Email Address Redacted>
(To the group: My apologies if this sounds like a commercial post. This
is the minimum amount of information necessary to answer the question
without providing 'sketchy' information. Hey, at least I'm not yelling
at everybody. <g>)
Regards,
Greg Pratt
Tracer Corporation
E-Mail: <Email Address Redacted>
Website: <URL Redacted>
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McNally, Patrick wrote:
>
> Looking for a firm that can CAD an AFO design from measurements,
> save the data and be able to make changes per instructions,
> then produce a model from which one can be formed over.....pkm
>
> Patrick K. McNally, CPO
.
TracerCAD is already being used to create custom AFO's from
measurements, saving and carving the models, then successfully fitting
dozens of patients.
As far as your question about 'changes per instructions', Tracer can be
used to make changes such as flexion, pronation, supination, changing
the angle and position of the heel or arch, forefoot adduction,
inversion, eversion, lengthening or widening the toebox, and much more.
(Some of these features are brand new developments that are being used
clinically in a limited setting and about to be sent to all of our
existing customers for free.) You can also use Tracer to create custom
and very specific buildups, compressions, or other modifications
anywhere on the model, including the plantar surface.
The measurements that TracerCAD uses can be very simple (a few
circumferences and lengths), or very precise (including various AP, ML,
and oblique anatomical measurements). You can use the TracerCAD
hardware to 'click in' the patient's measurements in seconds - and
tracing a 3D shape is certainly possible, but a completely different
subject.
Files can be carved on any PDI, ART, or Benz carver or central
fabrication facility with such a carver. (An existing carver will need
a TracerCAD 'MultiCarve' upgrade to allow the carver to produce AFO's in
addition to other model types.) The carver can produce either a
perfectly formed model or a model that has extra webbing between the
anterior tibia and dorsum of the foot. (The PDI/ART/Benz carver is a
solid 3-axis carver, which keeps the price down.) It can easily carve
plaster or foam, and does not require a rod to run through the center of
an AFO model.
The AFO carving package (MultiCarve) is in limited release right now,
but will be available in about ten more facilties and C-Fab's in a few
days. It will be only AFTER this time that AFO's will produced for
outside customers at these C-Fab's. We are also working at full speed
to accomodate several other orders.
An entry-level solution (software that allows you to create and modify
an AFO, then send it to an AFO-ready central fab) runs a few thousand
dollars, whereas the top-of-the-line, produce-it-all-in-house solution
runs about $80,000 or so for everything.
In a few days, we're going to release a free demonstration program of
these AFO features. If you'd like, I can send you a copy - just drop me
an e-mail.
I hope this answers your questions. If you have any more, you can
contact me at <Email Address Redacted>
(To the group: My apologies if this sounds like a commercial post. This
is the minimum amount of information necessary to answer the question
without providing 'sketchy' information. Hey, at least I'm not yelling
at everybody. <g>)
Regards,
Greg Pratt
Tracer Corporation
E-Mail: <Email Address Redacted>
Website: <URL Redacted>
----------------
McNally, Patrick wrote:
>
> Looking for a firm that can CAD an AFO design from measurements,
> save the data and be able to make changes per instructions,
> then produce a model from which one can be formed over.....pkm
>
> Patrick K. McNally, CPO
.
Citation
Greg Pratt, “Re: CAD AFO - TracerCAD,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/212460.
