Development of Brace for Clubfoot therapy
Client:
Undisclosed, under NDA
Project Year:
2017-2018
Brief:
- To create parametric models of infant lower leg and foot to be able to generate individualized braces based on key measurements
- To streamline key measurement requirements
- To speed up the workflow and improve scalability
Areas of work :
- Development of parametric model of lower leg and foot based on key measurements
- Development of brace based on leg model, with associated closures and fitment details
- Development of scripts to generate Voronoi meshes over selected areas of the brace based on lightness, comfort and strength
- Testing and comparison of generated braces against 3D scans of the limbs and manually sculpted braces
Toolset :
- Fusion 360
- Rhino3D + Grasshopper
Status :
The resulting cycle time per brace has gone from 30 hours of highly skilled labour to 15 mins of data operator work. The product is now under large-scale beta-testing.
Services rendered:
- 3D Modelling
- Process Development
- Product Optimization
