CHITUBOX Dental: Pioneering a New Era in Digital 3D Printing

 In an era of rapid 3D printing advancements, digital dental applications are experiencing groundbreaking transformations. Today, we’d like to introduce a revolutionary preprocessing solution: CHITUBOX Dental, a slicer software product with advanced functions for automatic model preparation.

CHITUBOX Dental represents the culmination of over two years of meticulous development by the renowned team behind CHITUBOX, a leading name in 3D printing preprocessing software. Unlike the conventional CHITUBOX slicers, CHITUBOX Dental is optimized for dental applications, streamlining preprocessing operations into three simple steps: import, automatic preprocessing, and slice. What advantages does CHITUBOX Dental offer in dental applications? Let’s delve deeper.

One-Click Slicing for Superior Efficiency

Unlike users of conventional 3D printers, dental professionals, such as clinics and labs, demand swift preparation for models and streamlined workflows while preparing large-batch models manually proves inefficiency.

To solve the inefficiency, CHITUBOX Dental has built-in a variety of automatic functions, such as auto-orientation, auto-hollow, auto-fill, and auto-support, which can help practitioners rapidly prepare batched models. The automatic procedures also make software operations easier, greatly reducing the learning curve.

According to CHITUBOX Lab’s test results, CHITUBOX Dental completes the whole preprocessing for a single surgical guide in 7.13 seconds and a single crown in 5.73 seconds. For the preprocessing of 16 models, CHITUBOX Dental needs only 44.25 seconds, while doing it manually takes about 14 minutes. One-click slicing enhances the preparation efficiency significantly.

 

Smart Algorithm for Better Experience

Considering that orientation is a key preprocessing step, CHITUBOX Dental automatically identifies the characteristics of dental models, surgical guides, crowns and bridges, splints, etc., and orients them intelligently by different algorithms.

For the filling function, unique dome structures are created at the overhanging area within the hollowed model, ensuring model stability even without additional supports. The internal through holes in the hive and grid structures can mitigate the suction force when the built plate rises and make it easier to pour out excess material after printing. Based on their testing, about 5 grams of material can be saved for a dental model after preparing with CHITUBOX Dental. Taking the example of a dental lab producing 2000 models daily, 10 kilograms of material can be saved per day, greatly reducing production costs.

through hole(left) and dome structure(right)

 

For users who use non-drilling built plates, adding drain holes to a plate of models can be arduous and error-prone. CHITUBOX Dental not only drills automatically but also places drain holes intelligently while avoiding filled structures.

Building upon CHITUBOX Pro’s capabilities, CHITUBOX Dental offers manual and automatic support generation, which is flexible to edit. For special printings like surgical guides, CHITUBOX Dental intelligently avoids generating supports within porous structures while adding more supports to the edges. This design ensures the adaptation between the guide and implant.

Using a nesting algorithm, CHITUBOX Dental optimizes model layout by maximizing space utilization to accommodate more models on the build plate.

Additionally, it offers ordinary functions like adding tags, cutting bottoms, and automatically adding reinforcement structures to meet diverse user requirements.

 

Optimized Pixel Quality for Higher Precision

Traditional slicers often suffer from inaccuracies caused by the rasterization, resulting in inconsistent pixel effects based on model positions. CHITUBOX Dental ensures consistently high-quality prints by optimizing the algorithm to eliminate pixel inaccuracy during the the vector-to-raster conversion process, no matter where the model is.

In dental 3D printing, printing accuracy also relies on the synergy between material and printer. Leveraging extensive experience in material adaptation, CHITUBOX Dental achieves deep adaptation between material and printer by collaborating with printer manufacturers and integrating parameter packages into the software. This simplifies parameter configuration and significantly enhances printing accuracy and success rates.

 

With over 1.8 million CHITUBOX software users worldwide, the CHITUBOX team makes a foray into the dentistry sector with the CHITUBOX Dental. This innovative tool is on a mission to take the hassle out of the preprocessing phase and to drive a huge efficiency boost in dental 3D printing.

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