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The manufacturing module 1260 may manufacture a patient-specific cutting guide 1206 using the preliminary cutting guide model. The manufacturing module 1260 may use a patient-specific cutting guide model generated from the preliminary cutting guide model. The manufacturing module 1260 may provide the patient-specific cutting guide model to one or more manufacturing tools and/or fabrication tool. The patient-specific cutting guide model may be sent to the tools in any format such as an STL file or any other CAD modeling or CAM file or method for data exchange. In one embodiment, a user can adjust default parameters for the patient-specific cutting guide such as types and/or thicknesses of materials, dimensions, and the like before the manufacturing module 1260 provides the patient-specific cutting guide model to a manufacturing tool.

Added by DJM Jan 2024