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Design a Brain Challenge with the Digital Anatomy Creator

Powered by the Digital Anatomy Creator, the medical modeling community continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible in anatomical 3D printing.

To celebrate World Brain Day and pursue advances in brain health for all, we invite you to join a challenge to develop and submit your best geometrical design and material structure for human brain tissue.

Requirements

  • Requirements:



    • A designed ADM file of an internal brain structure.

    • A CAD file of brain geometry.

    • A print file with all files ready for print.

    • Photos and an explanation of your work. Why did you choose these materials in this structure? How did you validate your development?

    • · Download GCP 1.68 Version


  • Submission Guidelines:




    • DAC users can submit all requirements to the GCP challenge page and fill the ADM saving tabs according to the attached photo (attachment).

    • Participants using Demo Mode should follow the instructions in the Demo document (attachment), select “send it to us” option on the top right corner and fill the submission tabs according to the attached photo (attachment).

    • Supported file formats: ADM, STL, OBJ, JPEG, PNG, PDF, Word, Print.

    • The challenge is only for brain tissue. All additional parts of the brain can be printed using DAP presets.

    • DAP TAG, DAP Materials

  • Attached You Will Find:



    • A brain model for testing, which can be submitted if no other brain model is available.

    • The DAC Technical Application guide, a document that will lead you step by step about using the SW (attachment).

    • How to complete the ADM submission using Demo Mode (attachment).


    • Recorded tutorials of all the basics you need to know about the SW.

    • A link to the DAC group on GCP Community.

  • TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE ABOVE MATERIALS PRESS THE SPEC BUTTON BELOW

Download specification

Rules

  • ENTERING THE COMPETITION:


    If you think an entry may infringe on existing copyrighted materials, please email challenges@grabcad.com.


    By entering the Challenge you:

      1) Accept the official GrabCAD Challenges Terms & Conditions.
      2) Agree to be bound by the decisions of the judges (Jury).
      3) Warrant that you are eligible to participate.
      4) Warrant that the submission is your original work. Warrant, to the best of your knowledge, your work is not, and has not been in production or otherwise previously published or exhibited.
      5) Warrant neither the work nor its use infringes the intellectual property rights (whether a patent, utility model, functional design right, aesthetic design right, trademark, copyright or any other intellectual property right) of any other person.
      6) Warrant participation shall not constitute an employment, assignment or offer of employment or assignment.
      7) Are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement for any costs.
      8) Agree the Sponsor and GrabCAD have the right to promote all entries.


  • Submitting an Entry


    Only entries uploaded to GrabCAD through the "Submit entry" button on this Challenge page will be considered an entry. Only public entries are eligible. We encourage teams to use GrabCAD Workbench for developing their entries. Entries are automatically given the tag "StratasysBrainDAP2022"; when uploading to GrabCAD. Please do not edit or delete this tag. Only entries with valid tag will participate in the Challenge.

  • AWARDING THE WINNERS

    The sum of the Awards is the total gross amount of the reward. The awarded participant is solely liable for the payment of all taxes, duties, and other similar measures if imposed on the reward pursuant to the legislation of the country of his/her residence, domicile, citizenship, workplace, or any other criterion of similar nature. Only 1 award per person. Prizes may not be transferred or exchanged. All winners will be contacted by the GrabCAD staff to get their contact information and any other information needed to get the prize to them. Payment of cash awards is made through Checks mailed to the Winners. All team awards will be transferred to the member who entered the Challenge. Vouchers will be provided in the form of Stratasys Direct Manufacturing promo codes.

    We will release the finalists before the announcement of the winners to give the Community an opportunity to share their favorites in the comments, discuss concerns, and allow time for any testing or analysis by the Jury. The Jury will take the feedback into consideration when picking the winners.

    Winning designs will be chosen based on the Rules and Requirements schedule.

  • Schedule

    This Challenge ends on September 2, 2022 (23:59 EST.) Winners will be announced on September 12th, 2022

Prizes

$2000 in Prizes

$2000 in Prizes

First Place

$1,000

Second Place

$700

Third Place

$300

About the jury?

- Ben Klein-Director of Product Management, Healthcare solutions

- Ido Bitan-DAP Product Manager medical solutions

- Reut Reina-Application Engineer medical solutions

- Atai Ophir-System Engineer Medical solutions

- Seth Friedman-PhD Manager of Innovation Imaging and Simulation Modeling, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, USA

- Daniel Crawford-Founder & CSO of Axial

About Stratasys

Stratasys is a global leader in additive technology solutions for a variety of industries including Healthcare. For more than 30 years, a deep and ongoing focus on customers’ business requirements has fueled purposeful innovations that create new value.

For the past seven years, Stratasys Healthcare has developed leading-edge technology for medical modeling including printers, materials, and software that mimic human anatomy with precision and accuracy.

14 comments

  • Konstantin Kostsov

    Konstantin Kostsov over 2 years ago

    Good afternoon.
    I have looked at your site: https://www.stratasys.com/en/digital-anatomy-creator/
    I did not understand the task at all. So please answer my questions:
    1 What is the global (end) goal of the project being developed. This brain will be printed out and somewhere internally вставят? Some kind of doll. Or are you just gathering ideas and don't need the brain itself? You already have a great approach to printing anatomical parts directly from an MRI.
    2 What functions should this brain perform? No function, just will lie in some kind of demonstration doll. Any simple reactions? Self-diagnosis, if the student creat not there damage. Imitation of conditional bleeding? Any functional reactions?
    3 Will it be some kind of layout for medical training?
    4 Is the material needed to simulate operations? What is similar from a real person? Only visual demonstrations?

    Hope for understanding. You write under of your own experience. But I don't know him. Not ponten context.

    Konstantin Kostsov has uploaded 24 CAD models & has left 32 comments.
  • Reut Reina

    Reut Reina over 2 years ago

    Hello Konstantin,

    Thank you for your message!

    The challenge is intended to expose participants to the Digital Anatomy™ Creator capabilities. We chose to focus on the brain to raise awareness for World Brain Day (July 22nd ).
    You are invited to create an anatomical model that mimics the brain either visually (ex: focus on vasculature) or functionally (ex: behaves like native tissue in a mechanical test or a procedure simulation of your choosing). CAD files of a brain model are provided as a starting point but uploading your own model will award you more points. The mandatory files are for material structure of the print, the .ADM file that is the output of the DAC SW.

    Please let me know if you have any additional questions or require more information.
    We look forward to evaluating your submission!
    Good luck!

    Reut Reina has uploaded 2 CAD models & has left 5 comments.
  • Reut Reina

    Reut Reina over 2 years ago

    Just a reminder for the submission requests- the challenge main goal is to use Digital Anatomy Creator SW and create .ADM file to submit. .STL files are not mandatory but a good addition.

    Reut Reina has uploaded 2 CAD models & has left 5 comments.
  • Vũ Hải Nam

    Vũ Hải Nam over 2 years ago

    Hi Reut, Do you using multicolor 3d printing machine to print this brain prototype?

    Vũ Hải Nam has uploaded 5 CAD models & has left 11 comments.
  • Reut Reina

    Reut Reina over 2 years ago

    Yes, you can use up to 7 materials + support material SUP706.

    Reut Reina has uploaded 2 CAD models & has left 5 comments.
  • Devyani Shah

    Devyani Shah about 2 years ago

    Was the winner declared for this challenge?

    Devyani Shah has uploaded 0 CAD models & has left 1 comments.
  • Reut Reina

    Reut Reina about 2 years ago

    Not yet. We were happy to see the participance, we are still testing the submissions and will announce in a few days. You can follow us in Stratasys Healthcare.

    Reut Reina has uploaded 2 CAD models & has left 5 comments.
  • Reut Reina

    Reut Reina about 2 years ago

    Hello everybody, We are excited to share that we have the winners for the challenge! Thank you everybody for participating, we got truly amazing ideas for brain models. You can see the winners in our LinkedIn post. Winners- we will be more than happy if you can comment on this so we can find you guys. Until next time, thank you!

    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stratasys-healthcare_thanks-to-all-who-participated-in-the-first-activity-6978699648567775232-tNV0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

    Reut Reina has uploaded 2 CAD models & has left 5 comments.
  • Forest Denton

    Forest Denton about 2 years ago

    Had a lot of fun with this competition, glad I could be a part of it!

    Forest Denton has uploaded 1 CAD models & has left 1 comments.
  • osasumwen obasogie

    osasumwen obasogie about 2 years ago

    wow am so glad to be a part of this is awesome @Reut Reina thank you i was in 1st place on the linkedin post

    osasumwen obasogie has uploaded 1 CAD models & has left 2 comments.
  • Cornelio Salinas

    Cornelio Salinas about 2 years ago

    This was an interesting one! Thank you for the challenge and results :)

    Cornelio Salinas has uploaded 1 CAD models & has left 1 comments.
  • Kesa

    Kesa about 2 years ago

    If you havent been awarded any prizes for this challenge please send a message to Kesa@grabcad.com and jackson.eckenrode@grabcad.com. Thank you

    Kesa has uploaded 3 CAD models & has left 211 comments.
  • osasumwen obasogie

    osasumwen obasogie about 2 years ago

    @kesa done so but still no response or feedback

    osasumwen obasogie has uploaded 1 CAD models & has left 2 comments.
  • Julia Decker

    Julia Decker over 1 year ago

    Can I still submit an entry?

    Julia Decker has uploaded 0 CAD models & has left 1 comments.

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