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Exocad Guide ToothLibraryModelEditor

The document provides instructions for using a library tooth editor program. It details how to load and align a tooth model, mark features like the chewing surface, cusps, equator and contacts. It also explains how to optimize the mesh and save the edited tooth model in *.eoff format.

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Exocad Guide ToothLibraryModelEditor

The document provides instructions for using a library tooth editor program. It details how to load and align a tooth model, mark features like the chewing surface, cusps, equator and contacts. It also explains how to optimize the mesh and save the edited tooth model in *.eoff format.

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Quick Guide to the Library Tooth Editor

General information on the use of the program:

Right-click + drag: scroll


Click both mouse buttons and drag: rotate view
Mouse wheel: zoom
Left-click: “Paint the tooth” or “Select and rotate tooth” (depending on the
mode, see below).

Please look at the teeth in the library included with delivery as examples
of how individual areas should be marked. To do this, load the file and
under "Edit Features" select the various areas. They will be displayed in
red on the tooth loaded.

How to create a new library tooth

• Load the STL with File -> Load Library Tooth (to create a library tooth)
or File -> Load Pontic (to create a pontic).
o Please note: the scan data loaded should be free of mesh
errors and holes. If there are errors, a repair will be attempted
automatically, which can very well lead to failures with difficult
problems.

o With “Load Pontic”, a complete closed form must be loaded.

• Next, align the tooth using the predefined axes:


o Press the button labeled Rotate model to align.
The viewer is now in the mode to rotate the model tooth.
o Rotate the tooth so that the mesial side points in the direction
of the pink axis and the buccal side in the direction of the blue
axis and the axis of the tooth along the orange axis.
o Please note: this only works only with teeth 11-18 and 31-38.
We do not need the others for reasons of symmetry. Thus
altogether only 16 model teeth need to be created.
o To exit rotation mode, press the button Rotate model to align
again.

• Next, mark the chewing surface (i.e. the area with fissures; see also
the example model).

o Select "Chewing Surface” under "Edit features" and use the


left mouse button to paint the tooth. (Tip: Press Shift to
delete.)
o As soon as that is done (directly afterward, not before nor after
marking additional features), select Tools -> Optimize Mesh for
Adaptation. This performs a mesh reduction with a different
triangle size for the chewing surface and the remainder.
o Tip: To observe the effect of “Optimize Mesh for Adaptation”,
display the mesh beforehand with “View -> Wireframe”.

• Next, mark the cusps individually as in the example tooth. To do


this, select “Cusp <X>” under “Edit features”, where <X> is the
number of the cusp.
The numbering is as follows:
o Rotate the view so the blue axis points upward, the pink axis
to the right, and the orange axis toward the user.
o For premolars: buccal Cusp 1 (above), lingual Cusp 2 (below)
o For molars: see the numbering in Figure 2. The numbering is
clockwise. This results in Cusp 2 always being the mesiobuccal
cusp and Cusp 3 always the mesiopalatal cusp. Cusp 5 is not
present in all teeth, of course.
o Mark all cusps of the tooth (2,4, or 5, depending on the tooth).
Mark the entire cusp in each case, not just the tip of the cusp!

Fig. 1: Numbering direction, “Cusp 1” (mesiobuccal) selected

• Then mark the equator. (Select Equator under Edit Features.)


o You’ll notice that the viewer switches to a different “painting
mode” then. Entire areas are no longer marked, just individual
points on the mesh.
o The equator should be a continuous line without interruption
or branching. Tip: Switch to wireframe mode beforehand (View
-> Wireframe) so this can be seen better.
o The import function can be used to import a suitable file
(*_eq.asc) from the Pagoda software.
PLEASE NOTE that the import will no longer work if the Rotate
model to align function was used beforehand. Therefore, when
using the import function, observe the following sequence: (1)
mark the chewing surface; (2) Optimize Mesh for Adaptation; (3)
Import Features (for fissure, cervical ridge, equator); (4) Rotate
Model to align; (5) mark cusps, etc.

• Now mark the cusp tips. Mark only one point (the highest) per
cusp.
o Tip: Switch to wireframe mode beforehand (View -> Wireframe)
to see better that only one point is marked.

• Then mark the cervical ridge using the same procedure as for the
equator. It is possible to import a file (*_PL.xyz) – note the
information regarding this (see above)!

• Mark the fissure, proceed as with the equator, except that it need
not be a continuous line and may be branched, of course. An
approximate form for the fissure is sufficient here; every detail of
branching is not necessary. It is possible to import a *_fi.asc file.

• Finally, mark the approximal contacts (one point each on the


mesial and distal sides of the tooth).
o Tip: Switch to wireframe mode beforehand (View -> Wireframe)
to see better that only one point is marked.
• Now mark the margins and triangular ridges (select Ridge under
Edit Features).
o All ridges and margins are marked with the same feature
(Ridge); however, in doing so, each area (margin or ridge)
should be clearly delineated and not merge into another (see
Fig. 2).

RIGHT WRONG
(Problem areas marked with red circles)

Fig. 2: Markings with “Ridge” must not merge with each other.

• Finally, save the tooth in *.eoff format using “File -> Save”.

• You’re finished!

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