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Daily Production Workflow

Once the articulator is calibrated and the plates installed, daily use is short: design, print, magnetize, seat. No remounting. No recalibration. No plaster.

A full-arch posterior case seated on a Light plate, held in a gloved hand on a black background. — SEATED · CALIBRATED · READY Every model snaps to the same reference

FAILURE POINTS TO WATCH

The system has three things that can silently break the calibration: (1) printer or resin change without re-running fitting_TEST, (2) magnets not seated flush, (3) offset mismatch between calibrator and Exocad libraries. Each step below addresses one of these.

Daily cycle, four steps

Production gallery

Real cases on real plates. Crown & bridge, full-arch, and implant work — all on the same calibrated articulator, no remounts between cases.

Upper arch crown-and-bridge case seated on a red Light plate, top-down view.

CROWN & BRIDGE Upper arch on Light

Standard daily-volume case. The four magnets bind the arch to the plate at the calibrated position.

Underside of a printed arch model showing the four DACOS attachment sockets with magnets installed.

UNDERSIDE Magnetised model, ready to seat

The four DACOS attachment sockets with magnets installed flush. The Exocad attachment library places these automatically.

Implant case on a DACOS Omni plate, showing analog cylinders integrated into the model.

IMPLANT Implant case on Ultra

The 8-magnet plate gives multiple seating configurations — pick the four that don't interfere with implant analogs.

Full-arch posterior case held in a gloved hand, seated on a Light plate.

FULL-ARCH Posterior on Light

Same plate, same calibration, different case. Seat, work, remove, repeat — the reference doesn't drift.

Recovery paths

If a model doesn't seat correctly, the cause is almost always one of three things:

Magnet not flush

A single magnet sitting 0.1 mm proud is enough. Inspect under raking light. Re-glue if any are off.

Offset drift on a new resin

If you've switched resin, print a fresh fitting_TEST before the next production model. Don't guess — verify.

Library / calibrator mismatch

Confirm the offset on your Exocad attachment library matches the calibrator's offset. Re-download if unsure.