Same clinical standard. None of the manual labor.
The printer executes the prescription you configured. It runs overnight and through the weekend, unattended, and the device is waiting when the patient comes back that afternoon.
For clinics producing orthotics for the patients they already see. No grinding, no dust, and no fabrication hours competing with clinical hours.
Is this you?
- You fabricate by hand today, or you send out and want the work back.
- Production hours are competing with the hours you could be seeing patients.
- You want the turnaround and the margin to stay in the building.
Three things change in the week.
The printer builds the orthotic. You build the prescription.
The craft moves from the grinder to the configurator. Every parameter you used to set by hand you now set on screen, and the machine executes it exactly.
It runs overnight. It runs on weekends.
Five pairs per printer every 24 hours, unattended, with nobody standing over it and no post-processing station to staff.
Hours, not weeks.
“Come back at 4, they will be ready” replaces “we will call you”. The fitting appointment and the delivery appointment become the same appointment.
Five steps. All five happen in your building.
- Capture You scan the patient iPhone, iPad, Structure Sensor or a foam box, in your own chair.
- Configure You configure the prescription Zone by zone in the configurator. Two to three minutes for a full device.
- Approve You approve it on screen The finished device renders before it prints. Change it now rather than after fitting.
- Produce Your printer produces it Overnight and unattended. Five pairs per unit every 24 hours, weekends included.
- Deliver You fit it the same visit Often the same afternoon. A correction after fitting reprints the same day.
The first three steps are identical whichever door you choose. Producing in your own clinic changes step four and step five: where the device is made, and how soon the patient has it.
You add capacity with a machine, not a hire.
Fabricating by hand caps your volume at your own hands, or at a technician you have to find and keep. A printer works the hours you are not there, and a second printer is a purchase order rather than a recruitment problem.
- 5 pairs per printer, every 24 hours
- 72+ hrs unattended continuous operation
- 1 week from delivery to production-ready
A capture method, a printer, material, and the software.
- A capture method iPhone, iPad, Structure Sensor, a traditional scanner, or a digitised foam box.
- A printer and material The unit sits in your clinic and runs unattended. Material is ordered by the spool as you produce.
- A Podform3D subscription The configurator, the print queue, and the archive of every device you have produced.
The three options
Printing in-house
- Who it is for: A clinic producing for the patients it already sees
- What you buy: Software, a printer, and material
- Who produces the device: Your own printer, in your clinic
- Turnaround to the patient: Hours. Often the same visit.
- Your time per pair: 2 to 3 minutes in the configurator
- What caps your volume: 5 pairs per 24 hours, per printer. Add a unit.
- Control over the device: What you configure is what gets built
- Where the margin goes: Stays in the practice
- How you start: A 14-day free trial
Producing for others
- Who it is for: A clinic or lab supplying clinics beyond its own
- What you buy: Software, printers, and accounts for the clinics you supply
- Who produces the device: Your own fleet, across one or more sites
- Turnaround to the patient: You set it, per account
- Your time per pair: None. Your client clinics configure their own.
- What caps your volume: Printers you add, not technicians you hire
- Control over the device: Each prescribing clinic controls its own device
- Where the margin goes: You price each account yourself
- How you start: A conversation about your volume
Outsourcing
- Who it is for: A clinic that wants 3D-printed orthotics without production in the building
- What you buy: Software, and production by the pair
- Who produces the device: A Podform3D partner lab
- Turnaround to the patient: 7 business days, and a second appointment
- Your time per pair: 2 to 3 minutes in the configurator
- What caps your volume: Nothing on your side. The partner lab absorbs it.
- Control over the device: What you configure is what gets built
- Where the margin goes: A share covers production for you
- How you start: A 14-day free trial
See it running before you commit to anything.
Fourteen days with the software, a sample pair you can flex and grind yourself, and a thirty-minute call to map it against your real volume. No commitment at any step.
Contact Dr. Antonin Berube at antonin@podform3d.com.