Cork on Blender (addon)

Blender boolean system is getting better every version. However there are serious issues with highly complex meshes.

Thanks to the effort of a dental surgeon, a 3d designer and a software developer, this addon allows the integration of Blender and Cork - a powerful standalone boolean calculations software.

This addon was created in 2015 to help planning and executing osteotomy surgery procedures. Since then it was used in a series of projects involving orthognathic surgery simulations, and human and veterinarian prosthesis modelling.

Cases of Success

Those are a few projects were Cork on Blender was tested before its public release:

• Injured Tortoise Receives World’s First 3D Printed Shell

• Low cost human face prosthesis with the aid of Blender and 3D printing

• Macaw receives 3-D printed beak

• Goose With Broken Beak Gets A New Life With 3D Printed Prosthetic

• 3D Printing To The Rescue; Hooded Crow Gets Beak Replacement

• Toucan Found Injured on Roadside Gets New 3D-Printed Beak

Requirements

• Cork stand-alone - If you can't build it yourself, download pre-compiled versions for Windows, MacOSX and Linux.

• Off import addon - Follow the installation instructions from the site.

• Cork addon - This project.

Installation

• In Blender go to File → User Preferences → Addons → Install from file

• Select the cork addon .zip, followed by Install from File.

• Cork on Blender shows up on top of the addon screen. Enable the addon.

• Expand the addon tab, and at the Cork Executable pick your installation of the cork stand-alone, and click on Accept.

• Finally, save your user preferences, and look at the new panel in the viewport.

Credits

• Dalai Felinto
• Cicero Moraes
• Everton da Rosa, PhD