Greetings. I am a facial surgeon and fairly familiar with 3D Slicer. I have a quick question. So my goal is to take a mandible fracture, segment the fracture, and move the segments to their anatomic positions, which allows me to print a 3D model for titanium plate bending prior to surgery. I have segmented the rendering for each fracture segment and converted them to a model so I can transform or move them to reduce the fractures. Now I want to export multiple ~4 segments as a single STL. Is there a way I can combine the segments into a single STL for export?
One option would be to make one new segmentation for each segment so you can move them independently, then harden them, then copy them back into a single segmentation and then merge them all with the logical operators and then export the result as a single stl.
The “Dynamic Modeler” module’s “Append” tool should work perfectly for this. Probably you would need to harden your transforms before appending the models into a merged model, but you can test if this is necessary.
Steve
I follow everything except how to copy the hardened segmentations into a new segment.
Can you elaborate a little more on that?
In the Segmentations module there’s a Copy/Move segments option.
Mike… This worked perfectly! Thanks for the help!