How to move the stent in Simvascular?

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Chunyu Li
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How to move the stent in Simvascular?

Post by Chunyu Li » Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:09 am

Hello developers,

Thanks for the wonderful software.

I know we can import a stent into Simvascular with the file type of. stl. But should I import the stent as the segment or the model? And how can I move the stent into the vascularin Simvascular?

Further, if the file type of.stl is ok, how about the type of .obj? And what's the difference?
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David Parker
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Re: How to move the stent in Simvascular?

Post by David Parker » Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:57 am

Hi Chunyu,

Building a CFD mesh incorporating a stent is a bit involved.

The best way yo do this is to use a solid modeler to build a solid model of the vascular geometry and the stent, and then perform a Boolean subtraction of the stent from the vascular geometry.

Another way would be to use VTK Boolean operations. This would require writing a program to position the stent, might be complicated.

Cheers,
Dave
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