From Concept to Prototype
From the first layer to a build-ready design, without leaving the software.
Build the Design
Layer by layer, segment by segment. The construction definition is the source of truth for everything downstream.
- Material Library: Pick from a library of common medical polymers, and add braid or coil reinforcements.
- Per-Segment Control: Independent dimensions, durometer, and braid PPI for each segment of the shaft.
- Live 3D Preview: The design updates as you build, so construction errors are visible before you calculate.
Instant Characterization
Before you simulate motion, get the static numbers. One click returns the full mechanical profile.
- Mechanical Outputs: Bending stiffness, torsional rigidity, axial stiffness, and failure-mode limits (tensile, torque, burst, elastic instability radius).
- Scale-Accurate Cutaways: 3D sections that verify layer interactions and show the team what's actually being built.
- Report Export: PDF or Excel for design reviews and documentation.
Simulate Real-Time Dynamics
Turn the static design into a dynamic digital twin. Drive it on a virtual bench and see how the physical device would behave.
- Virtual Actuation: On-screen controls let you drive the catheter through its full range of motion.
- Multi-Segment Behavior: Predict the curve shape across variable stiffness zones, including the interaction between different durometer segments.
- Pre-Build Confidence: Range of motion and actuation forces, established in software before you commit to the build.
Monitor Live Telemetry
Don't just watch it move, measure it. Live numbers stream from the simulator as you actuate the design.
- Force Feedback: Live pull-wire tension. Stay within component yield strengths, keep handle forces in the ergonomic range.
- Safety Margins: Live performance compared against the static limits, so events like exceeding the elastic instability radius show up the moment they happen.
- Lumen Integrity: Cross-sectional ovalization calculated through deflection, so guide wires still clear at maximum curve.
Calculate Reflow Stackups
Get the pre- and post-reflow dimensions right the first time, before the PO for tubing goes out.
- Extrusion Sizing: The engine handles the volume math as thermoplastic flows into the structural voids, so the raw tubing comes in at the right ID and OD.
- Assembly Clearances: Tolerances modeled across the full stackup. The layers fit together at assembly, not at the second extrusion order.
- Heat-Shrink Spec: Expanded ID and minimum shrink factor needed for adequate reflow force.
Explore the Design Space
Once one design works, see what happens when you change it. Run virtual DOEs to map the full performance landscape, not just the single operating point.
- Optimize or Stress-Test: Use the same DOE engine to find a better design, or to see how robust the current one is to construction variability.
- Multi-Variable Analysis: A change to one layer ripples through the whole shaft. See where it lands.
- 3D Response Surfaces: Find the operating point where performance and manufacturability both work, without running thirty physical builds to get there.
