# Setting Up Surgical Guides in Rayware Cloud
## Introduction
[0] Wanna show you how I like to set up surgical guides in any slicer software, but I'm gonna be demonstrating in Rayware Cloud. First, I wanna find a surgical guide on my computer. Let's see here. Guide. And I'm gonna call it a surgical guide, and let's go ahead and see how it does.
## Printing Orientation
[17] Now I typically like to print surgical guides perfectly horizontal with the build plate or at a slight incisal edge down angle of about 25, 30 degrees. So let's take a look at how Rayware sliced this. I also prefer for my tube channel to be perpendicular to the build plate. So for an anterior tooth that's angled look at this. Rayware kinda nailed it. That tube channel, you want to be perpendicular to the build plate.
## Understanding Angles
[43] Okay. What does that mean? That means you wanna look straight down and that tube is pointing right down at that build plate, and there's no angulation to it. So for example, the whole guide is angled at that about twenty, twenty five degree angle to the build plate, but that was in order to get the tube to be perpendicular to the build plate. Or another way to think of it is this flat surface here is parallel to the build plate, the sleeve housing, outer surface.
## Support Density
[72] So now let's look at the density of supports because it nailed the orientation. I'm gonna go ahead and hit autopilot off. I do find I like to add more density, around the tube, but avoiding critical structures of my sleeve, like these little hex these little rotation notches here for timing on this Eurus implant guide. I like to increase the density of my, surgical guide supports compared to default.
## Balancing Support and Failure Rate
[96] They make it very easy peel and very easy to finish, however, at a slight, cost sometimes of, higher failure rate of the print. So this is perfect. Just looking at the red areas and making sure I have an adequate pattern distribution of supports around the surgical guide and then a little bit higher density around my tube, avoiding the critical marginal area, for example, right there where the sleeve fits down into that tube.
## Final Adjustments
[120] These tiny little septal areas sometimes you you you kinda gotta just add one right there. You have no choice. But these do peel away super easy, just like Velcro, and it's very easy to do. And so again, this is basically, the most accurate way is your tube for your for your surgical guide sleeve is perfectly perpendicular to the build plate.
## Handling Multiple Implants
[150] And if you have multiple, multiple implants, you split the difference between them so that no one screw, angled channel is too angled compared with another. Sometimes it's difficult, say, when you're doing angled implants against the sinus, but, you'll figure it out. It's really, kind of foolproof in a lot of ways. You're not gonna get too many errors with this type of technique.
## Conclusion
[166] So, I hope this helps you guys increase the success and accuracy of your surgical guides.
