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In some dental practices—and at least in large dental laboratories—digitization has arrived. For example, intraoral scanners are becoming more and more popular in fabricating crowns and veneers. However, in the lateral and posterior tooth regions, the accuracy of the scans is quite limited. As soon as a cast of several teeth is required, such as for bridges or aligners, creating a plaster cast from a classic dental impression is still hailed as the most precise method—but unfortunately the most time-consuming.
With CT technology and VGSTUDIO MAX, dental professionals have now found the time-saving shortcut they were looking for. Thanks to automation, they can save a lot of time without having to compromise on the quality they've gotten used to.

It is no secret that American football is the most popular sport in the United States. In fact, professional championship games bring in an annual revenue of 15 billion US dollars, making it the most valuable sports league in the world! Recent years have shed more light on player health and safety in this exciting—but wildly full-contact—sport. Join us as we interview Dr. Andrew Mathers on scanning and segmenting parts of an American football helmet!

Gifts often hold great sentimental value—so great, in fact, that it is hard to believe such a small chip can make such a huge dent in function. At least, that was the case when a customer had a beloved fountain pen that no longer wrote. Check out this story of how they used VGSTUDIO MAX to segment, measure, and reconstruct parts of the pen!

In the early 18th century, sculptor Barthélemey Giubal brought five figures to life for the palace gardens in Lunéville: the singer Arion and his four accompanying putti. In 1766, Prince Elector Charles Theodore had these sculptures brought to Schwetzingen. Now, centuries later, they will be journeying home—as 3D scans. Join Benjamin Moreno and Vincent Lacombe as they scan the sculptures in Schwetzingen Palace!

Beetles are said to have been around as early as the Carboniferous period (ca. 360–300 million years ago), but because trees only started producing enough resin for amber in the Early Cretaceous (ca. 130 million years ago), fossil records of beetles before then have been scarce—that is, until 3D scanning and CT analysis made it possible to reconstruct beetle remains in dinosauriform coprolites. Join Martin Qvarnström and his team at Uppsala University as they uncover these prehistoric secrets and, using VGSTUDIO MAX, piece together part of a timeline 230 million years ago.

Let's say you invited some virtual friends over for some virtual cake. The question is, how do you even cut this thing? Where's the cake shovel? By using the clipping tools of VGSTUDIO MAX, you will learn that there are many ways to slice a cake—even a virtual one.

By using ROIs, you can really make your surface shine! Check out how we can quickly and easily polish the surface of a propeller.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which was first identified in December 2019, tipped the first domino in the global scramble to secure healthcare equipment and prevent casualties. A few months later, effects of the pandemic had cascaded: outbreaks in Italy, Latin America, and the United States buckled down and spread outwards, and by April 2020, the entire world had visibly changed. The virus had spiraled out of control, and hospitals all around the world were running out of time—and equipment.