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Software for bioprinting
potential for therapy in clinical application that 4.1 Printer control software
will be minimally invasive.
Multiple materials usually are integrated into Most of the current existing software are for the
medical biomaterials that are used in 3D printing bioprinting process controlling such as graphical
to achieve complex functions in printed objects. user interfaces (GUI)-based control software
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New equipment to guarantee high porosity, like Bioscaffolder from GeSim company . This
dimensional precision, and other useful properties software works with StereoLithography (STL)
could be developed in the future. There is also files representing object surface. It has two
a need to study high-performance materials for modules: Scaffold-generator and STL-interface.
various medical-oriented 3D printing techniques. The Organovo company for their NovoGen MMX
Bioprinter developed a general software that only
For all applications in the field of 3D bioprinting
described above, multi-component compatible includes essential functions. It has a graphical
materials must be used. A combination of materials interface for designing various 3D constructs.
should lead to maximum fitness according to It allows a user to choose parameters such as
materials, cell types, printing speed, and write and
specified parameters. load pre-defined commands for realizing specific
A number of issues in the field of bioprinting
are similar to problems that are already solvable movements of the robot and deposition heads.
by additive technologies and manufacturing. Now, Organovo collaborates with Autodesk to
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Therefore, it would be a perspective solution develop controlling software for bioprinters .
EnvisionTEC company has developed a computer-
to use the experience that was previously aided design and computer-aided manufacturing
gained in the field of multi-material 3D printing (CAD-CAM) software with a user-friendly
with necessary adaptation for the bioprinting. graphical interface for its 3D-Bioplotter system.
Summarizing all the above, studying multi- This software has been designed to monitor and
material 3D printing and developing new control the printing process until it is completed.
approaches in this research field represent one of Fujifilm Holdings Corporation Ltd. developed a
the critical elements that will make progress in GUI application software for its Dimatix Materials
the field of bioprinting. Printer. This software works with bitmap files by
Bioprinting research field could be subdivided importing them as CAD models and allows the
into the biology, materials, and computer conversion to bitmap format.
engineering. We will focus our attention on the CELLINK designed their own software package
third subdivision. named HeartOS, DNA Cloud, and DNA Studio
In the field of multimaterial printing for both to control the bioprinting process. It is for fast
bioprinting and additive technologies, the creation droplet layer-by-layer printing, where the model
of the mathematical and computational model in the G-code or the STL format could be loaded.
represents one of the critical tasks. To produce The software package is user-friendly and does
a perfect model in this field, it is necessary to not force users to spend their time on learning the
choose or create software that meets all model process. The software allows the user to simply
requirements. adjust parameters such as flow and speed . The
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4 Software for bioprinting software enables the user to preview a model
before printing, to perform slicing preview to see
The computational model is a crucial point in how each layer setting will affect the results and to
bioprinting technology. It is the first issue that must use active tools for printing infill.
be solved when there is a task in creating some Allevi developed the Allevi BioPrint Pro control
living tissue or whole organ using bioprinting. software for bioprinting . It runs online, which
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Nonetheless, the software development still lags allows user to work with it from any computer.
behind than the advancement of bioprinting . Allevi BioPrint Pro has built-in-model generation,
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