Development and evaluation of a facile mesh-to-surface tool for customised wheelchair cushions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Custom orthoses are becoming more commonly prescribed for upper and lower limbs. They require some form of shape-capture of the body parts they will be in contact with, which generates an STL file that designers prepare for manufacturing. For larger devices such as custom-contoured wheelchair cushions, the STL created during shape-capture can contain hundreds of thousands of tessellations, making them difficult to alter and prepare for manufacturing using mesh-editing software. This study covers the development and testing of a mesh-to-surface workflow in a parametric computer-aided design software using its visual programming language such that STL files of custom wheelchair cushions can be efficiently converted into a parametric single surface.

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SUBMITTER: Nace S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9926538 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature