Edit Mode – Medit Help Center

This mode is provided in case you need to correct or edit your scan data. To trim or sculpt the data, or to fill holes, use the tools in the pop-up toolbox on the left. The Section View tool can be used while you edit data. Any changes you make to the data will be reflected in the section view windows in real-time.

💡You can show, hide, or change data transparency in the Data Tree to make working in this mode more comfortable.

💡Use the "Show/Hide Section View" feature if the section planes are in the way while editing data. It will preserve your work results with Section View while temporarily hiding section planes.

💡Remember to use "Complete" if you want to save changes you've made.

How to trim data

Use the vast selection of tools offered under the Trimming Tool to remove any unwanted data.

1. To delete any unwanted data part, you must first designate an area for trimming. Choose from the following selection tool options:

Smart Teeth Selection	Click it to automatically select all teeth data at once, excluding the gingiva.
Smart Single Tooth Selection	Select individual tooth data, excluding gingiva and other teeth data. Click and drag until only your target tooth data is selected.
Flood Fill Selection	Click on a single arch data to select it all. Or click and drag to uniformly expand the selection over the entire arch.
Polyline Selection	Selects areas within the polyline shape drawn on the screen. Left-click to draw the polyline shape and right-click to close the shape and finish the selection.
Brush Selection	Click and drag to select areas on the freehand-drawn path. Note that compared to polyline, only the visible surface will be selected.

Quickly invert the selection by clicking "Invert Selected Area."

Slightly enlarge or reduce the selected areas each time you click the "Shrink Selected Area" or "Expand Selected Area" tools.

Turn on "Autofill Selected Area" to automatically select all data within the outline created by the Brush Selection tool. Note that it will only work on areas with no holes.

2. The "Deselection Mode" toggle is used to correct the selected areas. It changes the effect of all selection tools to deselecting. You can also clear all your selection at once by clicking "Clear All Selections."

3. When the target area for trimming is correctly selected, click "Delete Selected Area."

Toolbox (Trimming Tool)

Smart Teeth Selection

Automatically select only the teeth in the arch, leaving out the gingiva area.

💡This function is only available for the scan data acquired by Medit Scan for Clinics with the "GPU" option on.

Brush Selection

Select all areas on a freehand-drawn path on the screen.
Only the front-facing side will be selected.
The brush is available in three different sizes.

Smart Single Tooth Selection

Automatically select the area of a single tooth, leaving out the gingiva area.
Click and drag the mouse on the tooth.

Flood Fill Selection

The connected area is selected based on mouse movement.

Polyline Selection

Used to select all areas within a polyline shape drawn on the screen.

Deselection Mode

When on, it reverses the function of all selection tools.

Clear All Selection

Clear all selected areas.

Delete Selected Area

Delete the data from the selected area.

Autofill Selected Area

Turn it on to automatically fill the selected area. This function can be turned on and off.

Shrink Selected Area

Reduce the selected area each time you click the button.

Expand Selected Area

Expand the selected area each time you click the button.

Invert Selected Area

Invert the selection.

How to fill holes

1. Select the "Fill Holes" tool in the toolbox and adjust the slider for the maximum perimeter of a hole.

2. Turn on "Use Neighboring Colors for Filled Holes" and the program will match the color of the filled areas with data around it. Otherwise, the filled areas will be grey.

3. Click "Apply" to see the result.

💡Note that any holes exceeding the size you set will not be filled.

How to sculpt data

1. Select "Sculpting" in the toolbox.

2. Modify your data by adding, removing, smoothing, or morphing the data. Note that the brush strength and size must be adjusted individually for each tool.