Catheter Setup tab

The catheter setup wizard guides you through defining the geometry and characteristics of your catheter design. It is the first tab in VirtuCath and uses the full width of the window.

How the wizard is laid out

A step rail runs down the left-hand side. It is a tree, and it is how you move around; click any entry to jump straight to it, in any order:

• Design: Everything about the shaft as a whole: the catheter name and design mode, the section list and their lengths, and the pullwire arrangement.
• Construction: The layer stackup, one page per section. Your sections appear as children under this step, each labelled with its length and layer count (for example, "Proximal — 7.874 in · 4 layers"), so you can jump straight to the one you want.
• Review & Build: A summary of the whole design, and the Build button.

A Core Profile step appears between Design and Construction when the design mode is Multi-Lumen Core; see Multi-Lumen Core.

The Back / Next buttons at the bottom step through in order; on the last step Next becomes Build.

Related pages

• Multi-Lumen Core: build on a shaped multi-lumen extruded core instead of a round bore.
• Materials Library: polymer and metal materials available for layer assignment.
• Catheter Analysis: review predicted stiffness and failure-mode KPIs after building.
• Steering Simulation: run and drive the simulation after the model is built.
• Reflow Calculator: back-out layer-stackup tolerances for procurement.
• CLI API reference: the catheter .json schema, documented dynamically via the CLI's export_schema command.