ArchForm
Complete case building, staging and print-ready export.
Digital Aligner Services
Every stage of the setup — handled, documented, delivered.
We work as your in-house digital department, without the headcount. Send a scan; receive a finished, print-ready treatment plan. Take a single service or hand over the whole workflow.
Inside the setup
What You Actually Receive
Staging, attachments, IPR, mesh. All of it documented.
Every case comes back with these views, so you can check the plan before a single aligner is printed.
Treatment staging
Stage-by-stage sequencing with a rate limit on every movement. Stage 14 of 28 shown, anterior segment active.
Attachment map
Six attachments, each placed for a specific movement and timed to the stage that movement begins.
IPR planning
1.6 mm distributed across six contacts, inside a documented enamel budget, with the chairside chart.
Print-ready STL
Manifold-checked mesh on a hollowed base, oriented for thermoforming and engraved with the case ID.
Cephalometric analysis
Skeletal assessment before staging begins, so the plan is built on the patient's actual pattern.
Setup superimposition
Initial malocclusion against the planned final position, so you can see exactly what the plan moves.
Core service
Full 3D Treatment Staging
The complete plan, from initial malocclusion to final occlusion, built stage by stage.
What's included
- Segmentation, cleanup and base trimming of your raw intraoral or model scans
- Arch form assessment, midline and occlusal plane evaluation
- Stage-by-stage sequencing with rate-limited movement per aligner
- Anchorage planning and reciprocal force management
- Overcorrection built in where rotation, extrusion or torque demands it
- Final occlusion check - overjet, overbite, posterior contacts
- Complete stage count with estimated treatment duration
Why it matters
Staging is where cases are won or lost. A plan that respects biological limits is a plan that tracks.
24-48 hours
Automated & custom
Attachment Placement
Attachments are not decoration. Each one is a mechanical decision.
What's included
- Automated placement using your library or your aligner brand's protocol
- Custom attachment design for rotation, extrusion, root torque and anchorage control
- Correct geometry - optimised, rectangular, bevelled, ellipsoid, horizontal or vertical
- Placement timed to the stage where the movement actually begins
- Removal stages planned so attachments do not outstay their purpose
- Aesthetic-zone review to keep anterior attachments minimal and discreet
- Bonding-template export where required
Why it matters
The wrong attachment is worse than no attachment. Placement is driven by the movement it must deliver.
Included in every setup
Interproximal reduction
Precise IPR Planning
Space creation, planned to the tenth of a millimetre and mapped to real anatomy.
What's included
- Space analysis - crowding, Bolton discrepancy, arch length requirement
- IPR distributed across the correct contact points, not averaged across the arch
- Reduction kept within a documented, conservative enamel budget per contact
- Staged timing, so reduction happens only when the contact is accessible
- Chairside IPR chart - tooth, contact, amount, stage
- Expansion and proclination weighed as alternatives before enamel is removed
Why it matters
Enamel does not grow back. Every tenth of a millimetre is justified before it is prescribed.
Chairside chart included
Course correction
Mid-Course Refinements
When a case drifts, you need a corrected plan fast - not a rebuild from scratch.
What's included
- Progress scan compared against the originally planned stage
- Root-cause analysis - tracking failure, compliance, attachment loss or a staging error
- New staging built from the patient's actual current position
- Attachment and IPR strategy revised for the remaining movement
- A short, focused corrective series rather than full re-treatment
- Written note on what went wrong and how the new plan addresses it
Why it matters
A refinement should end a problem, not repeat it.
24-48 hours
Delivery
Print-Ready Model Export
Every stage delivered as a validated, printable file - no cleanup at your end.
What's included
- Watertight, manifold-checked STL per stage
- Hollowed or solid bases to your printer's specification
- Stage numbering and case ID engraved on the base
- Correct orientation and trim line for thermoforming
- Retainer models on request
- Files packaged per arch, per stage, named to your convention
Why it matters
A file that fails on the build plate costs you a day. Every export is checked before it leaves us.
Validated before release
Compatible software
We Work Inside Your Platform
Your licence. Your library. Your protocols. Your file formats.
We don't ask you to migrate. We operate in the software you already own, follow your existing attachment libraries and brand protocols, and return files in the format your workflow expects.
OnyxCeph
Setup, staging and analysis-driven planning.
Node-locked licence?
We work inside your environment via TeamViewer or AnyDesk. Your data never leaves your system, and nothing is copied out.
File formats
STL, PLY and OBJ in and out, plus the native project file for each platform above — so the case stays editable in your own software.
Not Sure Which Service You Need?
Send the case. We'll tell you.
Upload one set of scans and your prescription. We'll come back with a full plan and a note on exactly what the case needs — before you commit.