# Question about using ShapeWorks for transfemoral prosthetic socket shapes

**URL:** <https://shapeworks.discourse.group/t/question-about-using-shapeworks-for-transfemoral-prosthetic-socket-shapes/386>\
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**Created:** [October 31, 2025, 11:11am UTC](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/t/question-about-using-shapeworks-for-transfemoral-prosthetic-socket-shapes/386 "2025-10-31T11:11:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![irissterkenburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@irissterkenburg](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/u/irissterkenburg)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 11:11am UTC](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/t/question-about-using-shapeworks-for-transfemoral-prosthetic-socket-shapes/386/1 "2025-10-31T11:11:11Z")

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Dear ShapeWorks team,

Your application looks fantastic. I was wondering whether ShapeWorks can also be applied to shapes derived from transfemoral prosthetic sockets (specifically the upper portion). I ask because these shapes differ from anatomical models; they are open structures rather than fully closed or “round” meshes.

You can find examples of the shapes here: [https://zenodo.org/records/14065668](https://zenodo.org/records/14065668)

I previously tried using MeshMonk, but it failed to process these meshes, which is why I’m curious whether ShapeWorks would handle them better.

Finally, is it possible to export correspondence-landmarked meshes from ShapeWorks?

Kind regards,

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**Author:** ![amorris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@amorris](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/u/amorris)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/t/question-about-using-shapeworks-for-transfemoral-prosthetic-socket-shapes/386/2 "2025-11-03T17:56:16Z")

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Yes, ShapeWorks seems to be able to model these shapes. I’ve created a shape model using ShapeWorks Studio and placed it here:

[https://www.sci.utah.edu/~amorris/shapeworks/socket.zip](https://www.sci.utah.edu/~amorris/shapeworks/socket.zip)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/shapeworks/original/1X/2512a876e569a92b52ba441eaed440b44ecbd845.jpeg)

 ![socket_pca](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/shapeworks/original/1X/5b815b7c0f04dac6d9c86aaa31eac5a9cdb1166c.jpeg)

Regarding your question about exporting correspondence-landmarked meshes, can you clarify a bit more about what you mean?

In ShapeWorks Studio, we can export the correspondence points as well as the reconstructed meshes for each shape, which would be dense vertices/meshes for each shape in correspondence.

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**Author:** ![irissterkenburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@irissterkenburg](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/u/irissterkenburg)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/t/question-about-using-shapeworks-for-transfemoral-prosthetic-socket-shapes/386/3 "2025-11-04T14:57:24Z")

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Thank you very much for your efforts and for providing the information and files.  
Today, I have been trying to follow the same steps myself, but I am currently stuck: I am unable to click the “Run Optimize” button, both in the files you provided and in the example files from ShapeWorks. I have tried a lot to find the issue but so far I failed…  
I have also attached a log file that may help identify the problem.  
I hope you might be able to assist me.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/shapeworks/original/1X/d524058ad6858e18ce789ba6ac85af024c8df066.png)

(Attachment studio-2025-11-04\_15\_40\_18.txt is missing)

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**Author:** ![irissterkenburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@irissterkenburg](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/u/irissterkenburg)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/t/question-about-using-shapeworks-for-transfemoral-prosthetic-socket-shapes/386/4 "2025-11-04T15:05:33Z")

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I can see that my text file is missing so I included a small part of the text file here:

```auto
2025-11-04 15:42:07.653] [error] Program crashed, stacktrace:
[2025-11-04 15:42:07.656] [error] SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: '.;C:\Users\z804169\Downloads\socket\socket;C:\Program Files\ShapeWorks\bin;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;SRV*C:\websymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;', symOptions: 530, UserName: 'Z804169'

[2025-11-04 15:42:07.656] [error] OS-Version: 6.2.9200 () 0x100-0x1

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.002] [error] C:\Program Files\ShapeWorks\bin\ShapeWorksStudio.exe:ShapeWorksStudio.exe (00007FF6378B0000), size: 50081792 (result: 0), SymType: 'PDB', PDB: 'C:\Program Files\ShapeWorks\bin\ShapeWorksStudio.pdb'

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.005] [error] C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll:ntdll.dll (00007FF880A50000), size: 2064384 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.19041.6456

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.006] [error] C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNEL32.DLL:KERNEL32.DLL (00007FF880370000), size: 794624 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNEL32.DLL', fileVersion: 6.2.19041.5915

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.008] [error] C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll:KERNELBASE.dll (00007FF87E650000), size: 3104768 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.19041.6280

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.010] [error] C:\WINDOWS\System32\ADVAPI32.DLL:ADVAPI32.DLL (00007FF87F240000), size: 724992 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\ADVAPI32.DLL', fileVersion: 6.2.19041.6328

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.012] [error] C:\WINDOWS\System32\msvcrt.dll:msvcrt.dll (00007FF87F480000), size: 647168 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\msvcrt.dll', fileVersion: 7.0.19041.3636

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.016] [error] C:\WINDOWS\System32\sechost.dll:sechost.dll (00007FF87F060000), size: 651264 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\sechost.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.19041.6328

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.018] [error] C:\WINDOWS\System32\RPCRT4.dll:RPCRT4.dll (00007FF87EDC0000), size: 1179648 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\RPCRT4.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.19041.6280

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.020] [error] C:\WINDOWS\System32\bcrypt.dll:bcrypt.dll (00007FF87E0E0000), size: 159744 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\bcrypt.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.19041.5369

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.022] [error] C:\WINDOWS\System32\USER32.dll:USER32.dll (00007FF87EA70000), size: 1708032 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\USER32.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.19041.6456

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.024] [error] C:\WINDOWS\System32\win32u.dll:win32u.dll (00007FF87E380000), size: 139264 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\win32u.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.19041.6456

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.025] [error] C:\WINDOWS\System32\GDI32.dll:GDI32.dll (00007FF87EC30000), size: 176128 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\GDI32.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.19041.6157

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.029] [error] C:\Program Files\ShapeWorks\bin\Qt5Network_conda.dll:Qt5Network_conda.dll (00007FF86A720000), size: 1421312 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\Program Files\ShapeWorks\bin\Qt5Network_conda.dll', fileVersion: 5.15.4.0

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.033] [error] C:\Program Files\ShapeWorks\bin\xlnt.dll:xlnt.dll (00007FF850D00000), size: 2654208 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\Program Files\ShapeWorks\bin\xlnt.dll'

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.034] [error] C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\OPENGL32.dll:OPENGL32.dll (00007FF86A5F0000), size: 1212416 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\OPENGL32.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.19041.5794

[2025-11-04 15:42:08.035] [error] C:\WINDOWS\System32\gdi32full.dll:gdi32full.dll (00007FF87E950000), size: 1150976 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\gdi32full.dll', fileVersion: 6.2.19041.6157

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**Author:** ![amorris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@amorris](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/u/amorris)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://shapeworks.discourse.group/t/question-about-using-shapeworks-for-transfemoral-prosthetic-socket-shapes/386/5 "2025-11-05T23:15:35Z")

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Hi, you will either need to groom the data, or check the box for “skip grooming” in the Grooming module:

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/shapeworks/original/1X/ad90270ffbb4189ee2ae14e1f24d637e2522b416.png)