Computer-aided knee braces fabrication

• Main Authors: Ismail, Muhammad Hanif, Salleh, Mohamed Najib
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/22605/1/STML%E2%80%93Go%20Green%202016%20258%20264.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/22605/; http://stmlportal.net/stmlgogreen2016/pdf/p258.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

Knee braces is a tool used to avoid knee injuries. Traditional knee braces not suitable for many types of movement, such as running, jumping, pivoting, and kneeling.Traditional knee braces don’t have custom size.It just have few select sizes such as small, medium, and large.This knee braces are created to enable consumer to wear and use knee braces that suitable with their knee sizes and also to create low budget knee braces that suitable for any movement.Knee braces will be created by using software that called Blender and Cubify Sense.The main equipment that will be use is 3D Scanner and 3D Printer.The prototype will be print using 3D Printer.After do the final step, this prototype is ready to use by person.