DentalCAD Documentation - Index of topics

Welcome to exocad's English online documentation! See below for a list of topics.

Videos for beginners

When getting started with exocad DentalCAD, we recommend to watch introduction videos first. Afterwards, you can dive into the more advanced features documented in the Wiki.

Introduction

• Introduction to this documentation
• Start the virtual documentation walk-through

Requirements

See hardware and software requirements for exocad products: Hardware Requirements

DentalDB Application

• DentalDB Application

• Defining jobs for individual teeth
• Loading jobs
• Configuring where case/client/patient data is stored

DentalCAD Application

• DentalCAD - overview
• Documentation of the „wizard“ steps for a typical construction
  • Detect / edit margins
  • Setting insertion axis
  • Designing the inside of the crown
    
    
  • Mirror Or Copy Individual Teeth You can use the "Copy"/"Mirror" feature to mirror existing teeth that you would like to replicate.
  • Correct Tooth Placement
    
    
  • Freeforming
  • Adapt to antagonist/adjacent
  • Attachment
    
    
  • Creating the framework from the anatomic shape (Shrinking/Cutback)
  • Generating connectors
  • Saving restorations
• Other types of restoration
  • Telescopic crowns
    
    
  • Post and Core
• Visualizing intersections/distance to antagonists or adjacents
• Advanced options
• Understanding the difference between Pre-op and Waxup feature
• Hotkeys
• Expert Mode
  
  
• Tools
• The Cut View tool allows you to inspect sectional views of your design. All of the advanced options are explained in our video tutorial.
  
  

Implant Module

To get started with the Implant Module, we recommend to watch our training video first.

Written documentation about the individual steps can be found below:

• First step - choose implant type for construction in DentalDB
• Designing implant-based restorations
  • Matching the scan abutments
  • Emergence Profile
  • Tooth model placement
  • Generate abutment bottoms
  • Designing the full anatomy; designing framework (for screw retained structures)
• Custom abutments:
  • Define insertion axis
  • Abutment design
  • Designing suprastructure
• Screw retained structures:
  • Screw hole design
• For designing angulated screw channels, an on-line training video is available.

Bar Module

• Bar Module

Bite Splint Module

• Bite Splint
  • Design the bite splint bottom
  • Design bite splint bottom: Freeforming
  • Bite Splint: Tooth Placement
  • Design the bitesplint top
  • Bite splint antagonist/adjacent adaptation

Provisional Module

• Create eggshell temporaries with the provisional module:
  • Provisional Module - Defining Indications
  • Provisional Module - CAD

Full Denture Module

• Full Denture Module

• Single Arch Denture

• Duplicate denture
• Overdenture on ball attachments
• Ivotion denture system

Model Creator

• Model Creator Module

• Model segmentation
• Model Design

Virtual Articulator

• Articulator Module
• Using the Virtual Articulator on cases that have restorations on both upper and lower jaw

Smile Creator

• Smile Creator

exocam - exocad's CAM software

• CAM Module (written documentation)

exoplan - exocad's implant planning software

• exoplan comes with extensive documentation, provided in PDF format.

Partial Frameworks

• Partial Framework Design (witten documentation)

dentalshare

• Setting up dentalshare

• Using dentalshare for collaboration and data transfer

• Details about dentalshare can also be found in in our dentalshare manual, which is available here as separate downloadable PDF file.
• Material libraries for dentalshare
• Share 3D preview with iTero doctor

How-To

• Allow any changes
• Splitting Bridges
• Working with 2D images
• Make exocad default program for 3D-Data
• Fixing bad surface orientation in scan data
• Clearing Values in Dropdown Menus
• Correcting antagonist position by loading a new alignment scan
• Using the Virtual Articulator on cases that have restorations on both upper and lower jaw
• Screw Retained Bridge Design: How to deal with non-ideal implant placement
• Full Denture: How to design a full denture without teeth 4
• Provisional crown stump models
• Enabling automatic import from Dentsply Sirona's Connect Case Center Inbox
• Setting up integration between iTero Element and exocad (for local direct case transfer between iTero and exocad, e.g. in Chairside CAD/CAM setups)
• Setting up integration between MyiTero and exocad (for labs receiving cases from doctors using iTero scanners)

• Viewing a scene in exocad webview
• Library setup for immediate load workflow
• How to record a video for TruSmile Video
• Additional How-Tos are available as on-line videos.

Further Case Demonstrations

You can learn more about the software by watching one of our Full Case Demonstration videos, which illustrate the usage of exocad software do solve difficult/complex cases.