The nine steps

The nine steps, start to finish

A splint is not one operation, it is a sequence. Here is each step, what it hands to the next, and what you decide along the way.

The NexorCAD designer with a finished upper splint on the scanned arch, seen from below, and the nine steps across the top, all complete.
  1. 1

    Load

    Drop in the upper and lower scans exactly as the scanner exported them. STL or PLY, no conversion.

  2. 2

    Clean

    Loose fragments, spikes and holes go, and the mesh is closed, so nothing downstream trips over bad geometry.

  3. 3

    Orient

    The arch is set on the occlusal plane. Everything after this measures against that, which is why it happens early.

  4. 4

    Articulator

    The two arches are brought into occlusion and the bite is fixed, so the table is built against a real antagonist.

  5. 5

    Segment

    Teeth are separated from gingiva. The splint has to know what it sits on before it can decide where to grip.

  6. 6

    Blockout

    Undercuts are shown on the scan, then filled with wax along the insertion axis. You choose what holds and what lets go.

  7. 7

    Outline

    Draw the border once. It follows the arch and spans a diastema rather than dropping into it.

  8. 8

    Generate

    The shell is built over the blockout in one pass: coverage, wall height, thickness and the flat occlusal table.

  9. 9

    Finish

    The wax is cut away, the fitting surface is relieved, the case is written into the mesh, and the STL is ready for the printer.

Cleaning, orienting, re-running a step and regenerating a report are unlimited on every plan. You are only counted when you export.

What you hand over

Every finished case produces a report: the prescription on a tooth chart, the splint from eight angles, the settings it was built with and the thickness map. Print it for the chart, or send it with the file.

The In the bite section of the NexorCAD case report: the finished upper splint with the jaw closed onto it at its designed opening, and the other bite views below.

Why it is quick

The time comes off the repetitive parts

None of this removes a decision from you. It removes the dragging, the re-measuring and the guessing.

The route is always the same

Nine steps, in order, each unlocking the next. You never open a case and wonder what to click first, and neither does anyone you hire.

The blockout is automatic

Undercuts are found along the insertion axis and filled with wax. You are shown them on the scan first and you choose which ones keep the splint on.

The occlusal table is built, not sculpted

A flat, balanced table with an even stop on each opposing cusp, in one pass. This is the part that takes the longest by hand.

The outline draws itself

Trace it once. It follows the arch, snaps to the teeth and jumps a gap instead of diving into it.

The thickness is guaranteed

The shell is offset from the blockout wax, the surface the splint really sits on — not from the raw scan. The minimum you set is the minimum that prints.

Nothing to install

It runs in the browser on the machine you already have. No licence per workstation, no graphics card to specify, no update to schedule.

Design one and time it yourself

Fourteen days and three exports, free, on your own cases — and the sample case that comes with every new workspace never counts.

No credit card. Setting up takes about two minutes.