Scan-to-print for orthotics, prosthetics, insoles, and eyewear
Turn the Grasshopper definition you use to design a custom-fit device into an online app your orthotists, prosthetists, podiatrists, fitters, or opticians can run themselves. They upload a scan, adjust what’s allowed, and get a print-ready model back - no Rhino, no CAD skills at the point of use.
14-day trial. No credit card.
The problem
In scan-to-print work, the hard part usually isn’t the Grasshopper definition - it’s that every case needs someone to drive it, and the people at the point of use (clinicians, fitters, opticians) don’t have Rhino and shouldn’t have to. So rectification and device design (reliefs, build-ups, trim lines, wall thickness) funnel back to one or two CAD-literate specialists, and that’s the ceiling on how many devices you can make. Scaling a bespoke device beyond what a few people can model by hand is where most teams get stuck.
How it works
The person at the point of use uploads a 3D scan or enters measurements through a simple browser interface.
Your Grasshopper definition applies your reliefs, build-ups, trim lines, and offsets to that specific scan in the cloud - the same logic every time.
The interface is built in App Builder, so the clinician or fitter only sees the controls you choose to expose.
Parameter limits and input checks stop out-of-range or non-manufacturable cases from reaching production.
A fitted model comes back in seconds, in the formats your process needs - with the tolerances, wall thicknesses, and clearances you specified.
How this is different
Rectification software gives an orthotist or prosthetist sculpting tools to modify each scan by hand, case by case. ShapeDiver suits teams that want to encode their own design rules for a device family: the definition applies them to every scan, and the clinician adjusts only what you expose.
Those interpolate between preset shapes. A Grasshopper definition computes each device from the actual scan, so an unusual case isn’t forced to the nearest template.
Configurators pick from predefined options. Scan-to-print has to take an arbitrary scan as input and return unique geometry - that needs a real CAD engine, which is what runs behind ShapeDiver.
You could host Rhino and Grasshopper, build a viewer, and write the UI, then own the servers, security, scaling, and maintenance indefinitely. ShapeDiver already runs all of that.
A specialist modeling every case is exactly the bottleneck you’re trying to remove. With ShapeDiver, one definition handles every case.
Whatever you build stays yours - you own the Grasshopper definition and can take it in-house or elsewhere at any time.
What comes out
Every run produces the files your process needs:
Because the whole chain is automated, the geometry that reaches the printer is generated by the same logic every time. And through our APIs and SDKs, that output can flow straight into your order-management or ERP system.
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Customers
BelgiumOrthoses and prostheses, from a scan or measurement instead of a plaster cast.
“ShapeDiver is the crucial link between our designs and our clients.”
The OrthoSolid team
Switzerland
Japan
3D-printed prosthetics delivered across Asia, with clinics in India and the Philippines - from a remote scan to a finished socket in a day, by the company’s own account.
The business case
Capacity stops being tied to the number of CAD-literate people on staff.
The same logic runs for every case, so the process is repeatable and easier to document in your own quality system, for example under ISO 13485.
Lead time
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To be measured with customers.
Devices per technician per week
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To be measured with customers.
Trust & security
ShapeDiver is the design tool, not the manufacturer of your devices. You remain the manufacturer, and you validate the definition and the app in your own quality system, as you would any software used in production. Your definition stays private on our servers and is never exposed to the people using the app. Parameter limits and input checks keep every case within the ranges you set. Everything runs on SOC 2® Type II audited infrastructure, with cloud regions in the EU, the US, and Asia - and Enterprise customers can run on a dedicated, isolated environment.
Security & Trust
Who it's for
Getting started
Self-serve
Start a free trial, upload your definition, and see it running as an app in minutes.
With our team
Our team can build or optimize the Grasshopper definition with you - mapping out one device family from scan to print, then deploying it at a pilot site and iterating. You keep what we build.
Ready-made
Some of our customers offer their own white-labeled, ShapeDiver-based applications. Tell us what you need and we can connect you with an existing solution provider.
Whichever route you take, a new version of the definition reaches the people using the app only when you publish it - and you’re never locked in.
FAQ
No. At the point of use it’s a browser app; the CAD runs in the cloud.
Your orthotists, prosthetists, podiatrists, fitters, or opticians, through an interface that shows only the controls you choose to expose.
Not necessarily. Rectification software is built for modifying each scan by hand, and many clinics keep it for that. ShapeDiver fits where a device family follows rules you can write down, such as insoles, cranial helmets, or a standard AFO design: the definition applies them to every scan. You can start with one device family and keep the rest in your current software.
Most scanners do, because the app takes the mesh they export: OBJ, STL, PLY, and most other formats Rhino can import. Your definition can clean and align the scan before it fits the device, whichever scanner took it. The result comes back as STL, 3MF, or STEP.
Any process that takes a mesh: HP Multi Jet Fusion, SLS, FDM, or resin. Wall thicknesses, clearances, and lattice or perforation patterns come from your definition, so you set them for your printer and material, for example PA11, PA12, or TPU.
You decide when a change goes live: the people using the app keep working with the current version until you publish a new one. The definition runs the same logic every time, with parameter limits and input checks that stop out-of-range cases before they reach production. Validating each version and documenting the change stay with you, in your own quality system. Your definition stays private.
No. ShapeDiver is the software platform your definition runs on; it doesn’t design a device on its own. You remain the manufacturer of the devices you make with it, for example of custom-made devices under the EU MDR, and you validate the definition and the app in your own quality system.
Yes - through our APIs and SDKs, so output and order data can flow into your existing systems.
On SOC 2 Type II audited infrastructure, with cloud regions in the EU, the US, and Asia. Enterprise customers can run on a dedicated, isolated environment.
Yes. Our Professional Services team can build or co-build it with you, and you own the result. Projects start with a short Specification Stage, which gives you a fixed price for the whole build.
Scan-to-print
Start a free trial and put one of your own definitions in front of the people who need it - or talk to us if you’d like help getting the definition right first.
