Release date: 13.11.2025
Overview
This release introduces improvements to localized geometry editing, camera navigation, anatomical landmark adjustments, UI clarity, and measurement precision. The updates are designed to support a more consistent, predictable, and clinically reliable AFO design workflow.
Key Enhancements
1. “Defeature” Tool
A regional smoothing mode that can be used to lessen or remove features and smooth out defects
What’s New: Now more effective for removing sharp peaks and bumps, and filling valleys
2. Regional inflate/deflate
The tool highlights an area or region with a variety of selection tools and inflate or deflate the selected triangles. This is good for snugging up the fit on a fleshy calf, or adding room for a calf liner.
What’s New: Inflate/Deflate can now be used regionally
3. Multi-view Camera
Users can view and control multiple camera angles at once with separate viewing windows.
What’s New: A new “Multi-View” toggle switch on the lower right hand corner
Known Limitations: Multi-view cameras are only available in Orthographic mode
4. Adjusting landmarks and mesh edits after designs have been applied
If landmark repositioning is required, the user can easily return to the Landmarks tab, adjust the required landmark locations, reapply, and then continue the design process. This helps users modify parameters without needing to restart the entire design workflow. Furthermore, any changes made to the underlying mesh edits will automatically update in the Design tab.
What’s New: Landmarks can be repositioned after the initial placement is approved, and even after mesh edits or posture corrections have been applied. Mesh edits can be made without resetting the Design every time.
5. Channel Tool
To enhance patient ease of wear, the Channel Tool has been designed to quickly generate an anterior channel, facilitating the creation of the required squared edges on the AFO’s sides. Users can access a wide range of parameters within the tool to precisely modify the added shape, ensuring an optimized geometry for easy application and removal.
What’s New: Users can now make a “Channel” or “Trough” build up to make the AFO easier to donn
Known Limitations: Cannot be extended past the met heads, or added in the posterior direction
6. Section Measurement
One-click access is available for A/P, M/L, Girth, and Height measurements. These measurements can be precisely adjusted to ensure the highest degree of accuracy, thereby offering a rapid, precise, and user-friendly tool.
What’s New: Section measurement in the measurement tool
7. Scan Auto Clean
What’s New: Scan auto clean helps patch holey scans and resolve scan artifacts
Known Limitations: May cause the scan to disappear, can be undone
8. Pipe tool
The main outline can be used to define a pipe addition that can be used as a flared edge buildup on a positive model. The pipe can be added with a convex, concave, or linear profile, and the height and radius can be set separately. This makes the addition of a flared edge more accurate and easier.
What’s New: Trimlines can be turned into pipe or ridges to make easy flared edges
Known Limitations: Certain flare height and width parameters will result in impossible geometry and will not work
Additional Enhancements
9. Flatten tool
The flatten tool can be used in two different ways that result in wider or more focalized flattening operation.
What’s New: User can now choose perimeter based or center based flattening
10. Footplate tool is now a mesh edit feature
What’s New: The Footplate tool has been relocated from the Design tab to the Mesh Edit tab so that smoothing operations can be applied
11. Regional smoothing: Radius slider
What’s New: The regional smoothing tool now has brush radius control to increase or decrease the size of the brush tool. This enhancement facilitates the accurate smoothing of specific regions as required.
12. Regional Smoothing: Invert
A selection can be made with the Lasso, box, or brush tools. The selection can now be inverted to select all other triangles instead. This can reduce time smoothing, for example, a user can select the calf area, invert the selection, and immediately apply smoothing to the remaining geometry (the foot), reducing the time spent on detailed manual selection.
What’s New: Invert selection when using the Regional Smooth tool
13. Regional Smoothing: Clear selection
What’s New: Highlighted area can now be unselected.
14. Tool movement limitations
Advanced mesh edit tools like Transform/Bend/Twist/Stretch/Scale had limitations in the movement parameters. These parameters have been updated to allow for the control loops to be located anywhere on the footscan
What’s New: Control loops can now be placed distal to the met heads
15. Narrower default Toe box
What’s New: The default toe box width has been reduced to create a more naturally sized toe box. The new default width addition is 1mm, a reduction from the previous 2.5mm.
16. Increase toe box height
The max range of the toe box height has been increased 30mm so that a taller toe box can be added. This is especially helpful for scans that are plantarflexed
What’s New: Toe box height has been increased from 50mm to 80mm
17. Flared edges Tool
The flared edge tool adds a shelf buildup to the posterior of a leg scan. The user can easily shape the profile of this shelf and flared edge to their liking. Then the trimline can be routed across this region to make a flared edge on the AFO (either for 3DP or for CNC).
What’s New: Add a flared edge buildup as a mesh edit
Known Limitations: Can only be used on the posterior calf region
18. Stirrup Tool
The stirrup tool can be used to change the size, height, and blending of a lateral flat zone into the foot
What’s New: Users can add a flat zone on the lateral foot to make space for a stirrup
Known Limitations: Currently only available on the lateral side
19. Camera Auto-rotation
What’s New: Camera auto-rotation has been enhanced during landmark placement. The foot scan model now automatically rotates when landmarks are applied, optimizing user efficiency.
20. Move offset tool to right after Posture correction
Scan offset can be an important part of the mesh edit process, and has been moved to be higher on the list as it usually comes first in the modification process
What’s New: Scan offset button has been moved towards the top of the Mesh Edit tool list
21. Distance measurement components along XYZ axes
What’s New: Distance measurements can be taken, and while the total value will still be reported as usual, the individual components of this measurement will also be presented separately. This enhancement provides users with detailed insights into the heights and lengths of various features, thereby streamlining the measurement process.
22. Angle Measurement upgrades
Angular measurements could easily be taken in the sagittal plane, but now the measurement can be forced into the frontal or transverse planes. This allows for measurements of toe in/out or subtalar varus/valgus that weren’t previously possible. Also, all measurements can now be “pinned” and saved for later reference, or hidden/shown.
What’s New: Angle measurements can now be taken in the frontal and transverse planes
Known Limitations: The measurement will automatically update after a posture correction, but only once the APPLY button has been clicked
23. Cutout tool has new shapes
New shapes are available for the Cutout tool. This lets the user customize more accordning to different designs and shapes.
What’s New: Rectangle, triangle, and ellipse shapes are now available for each cutout
24. Circular Proximal Template
This new trimline template can easily be used to apply a circular outline to the calf section of an AFO.
What’s New: A new design template called “Circular Proximal” is now available and can add a ring trimline to the calf section.
25. Color UV/texture map
An OBJ scan with a JPEG, PNG, or BMP texture file can be imported and viewed. The texture layer can be turned on and off for easy viewing, and the texture will still remain after a remesh, posture correction, or buildup. This allows the users to make marks on models or casts that can be referenced during the design process to make design more accurate (e.g. placing buildups or trimlines)
What’s New: OBJ Scans can now be viewed with texture layers
Known Limitations: Only .JPEG, .PNG, or .BMP files are supported
26. Embosser inside/outside
The user now can select from 3 modes of embossing, which enables more design freedom, and can use the Emboss inside feature to hide information like patient names or serial numbers.
What’s New: Embossing can now happen on the inside of a shell, or as a complete cutout
Known Limitations: Embossed cutout may not work for all shapes, and can degrade the model
27. Better Visual Feedback
What’s New: Camera lighting, shading, and color visualization has been improved to make the footscan model and device more easy to view
We hope these enhancements prove valuable to your workflow. For any questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact your LeoShape representative, or fill out our contact form and we will get back to you shortly.