Henry Schein Orthodontics:
Perscription Bracket CAD Geometry Redesign
Torque angle
Above is a torque correction applied to a bracket geometry and to the right is a tip correction. These angles are measured inside a patient's mouth and the opposite angle is applied to the bracket in order to provide the correction. The entire base geometry of the bracket changes with these angles but the bracket geometry itself remains the same.
In this project I was tasked with creating a modular geometry concept to allow for bracket CAD designs to be easily modified for prescription brackets. The base of a bracket can be angled in 3 different dimensions to correct a tooth placement in a patient. These 3 correction planes are known as tip, torque, and rotation.
Tip angle
It was my job to convert this geometry from Creo parametric software and recreate it in Solidworks. The intention was to create a base for designers in the future to build off of, creating a framework to easily adjust designs when the base angles need to be adjusted.
This was the final conglomerate of planes I created and named carefully. It was a complex set of planes that had interconnected relations and formed a foundation for future prescription bracket designs.
