# Creating Soft Sockets and 3D Scans from Plaster Casts --- For more pictures of soft socket creation, [check out the gallery](https://hub.e-nable.org/u/kreeser1/gallery/custom-gallery/view?openGalleryId=84#.jpeg). For more pictures of creating and post-processing plaster casts, [check out the gallery](https://hub.e-nable.org/u/kreeser1/gallery/custom-gallery/view?openGalleryId=85#.jpeg). For more pictures of 3D scanning, [check out the gallery](https://hub.e-nable.org/u/kreeser1/gallery/custom-gallery/view?openGalleryId=86#.jpeg). --- ### Creating a Plaster Cast   ### Creating a Soft Socket --- *Premia Bond contact adhesive, manufactured by: Dynamic Chemicals Ltd. (Nairobi) Suitable for bonding leather, rubber, plastic, floor tiles, ceramic, wood, Formica, glass, metal, and textiles* 1. *Ensure all surfaces to be bonded are free from grease \[and\] dust, and are dry.* 2. *Apply glue to both surfaces and let it dry for 8-10 minutes.* 3. *Bring the two surfaces together and apply pressure to ensure a firm bond.* 4. *With time, the bond between the surfaces will become stronger.* ---     ###### Views of the completed soft socket, wrapped with PVC leather. --- ### 3D Scanning Plaster Casts and Soft Sockets  ###### Isaac Rukundo, director of the P&O department at HVP-Gatagara, 3D scanning a plaster cast of a patient’s residual limb. ---  ###### Left: A plaster cast of a patient’s residual limb. Right: A soft socket, formed over the plaster cast from the left panel. --- ### Notes on 3D Scanning  ###### Left: Roberto Postelmans using a Sense 3D scanner to scan Kyle Reeser’s hand. Right: A 3D model resulting from scanning a hand. Note the material in between the fingers of the 3D scan, a deficiency in the 3D scanner’s ability to create an accurate model to track it’s registration points on the fingers. --- ### Takeaways ### e-NABLE Community Calls to Action