10/15 | 3D Print Scan Measure Expo 2026

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Indicate Technologies Presents

3D Print-Scan-Measure Expo 2026

Thursday, October 15, 2026 · 2065 Martin Avenue, Santa Clara, CA · 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Is your current supplier doing everything you need to achieve success?

Technology in printing, scanning, and measurement has moved quickly. Capabilities that required outside services three years ago now sit on a benchtop. Materials that didn't exist are in production. Measurement approaches that were lab-only have moved to the floor.

This is a day to see where things stand. Equipment from a dozen brands running at a single location, the applications engineers who know it best, and a full program of sessions built to teach.

Who This Is For

This event is built for people who make decisions about how parts are designed, produced, measured, and validated:

Design engineers
Manufacturing and production engineers
Quality managers and engineers
Supplier engineers
Operations leaders assessing capability investments
Anyone exploring new manufacturing methods and materials or needing to optimize part production

Reserve Your Spot

How the Day Works

Parallel sessions, all day.

Four tracks running simultaneously from morning through afternoon. Attend one track end to end, or move between them. Each session runs about an hour.

Equipment stations on the floor.

Between sessions, the floor is open. Every brand brings equipment and staffs it with someone who can demonstrate it, answer technical questions, and talk through your specific application.

Bring your parts.

If you have a part that's difficult to measure, difficult to scan, or difficult to produce, bring it. This is the one day of the year when you can put it in front of a dozen different technologies and a dozen different experts in a single afternoon.

Closing happy hour.

The day ends with drinks and conversation. Some of the most useful conversations happen after the sessions end.

Four Tracks, One Day

Additive

Production and prototyping across polymer, resin, and metal. Large format, multi-material, and high-performance applications.

Quality

Measurement, inspection, and quality workflows. Multisensor systems, CT, coordinate measurement, and surface characterization.

Process

Post-processing, surface finishing, and the steps between production and a finished part.

Design

Reverse engineering, scan-to-CAD, and design for manufacturing across additive and traditional processes.

*This year's session lineup is being finalized now and will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Schedule at a Glance

The session lineup is being finalized now. Times are set; sessions will be announced as they're confirmed.

8:00 AM

Doors open. Coffee and breakfast.

9:00 AM

Welcome and opening remarks

9:30 – 10:30 AM

Session Block 1 (Additive Session A, Quality Session A, Process Session A, and Design Session A)

10:45 – 11:45 AM

Session Block 2 (Additive Session B, Quality Session B, Process Session B, and Design Session B)

12:00 – 1:30 PM

Lunch provided. Equipment stations stay open.

1:30 – 2:30 PM

Session Block 3 (Additive Session C, Quality Session C, Process Session C, and Design Session C)

2:45 – 3:45 PM

Session Block 4 (Additive Session D, Quality Session D, Process Session D, and Design Session D)

3:45 PM

Closing remarks

4:00 PM

Happy hour

How to Plan Your Day

Sixteen sessions across four tracks. Follow one track end to end, mix and match across tracks, or skip sessions entirely and spend the day on the floor.

Come and go. Equipment stations are open from doors to close, including through lunch. Step out of a session and onto the floor whenever it makes sense.

Register for the sessions you want. When session selection opens, pick as many or as few as you like. We use those numbers to size rooms, so it helps us and it holds your seat in the sessions that fill up.

Come for part of the day if that's what works. Some attendees stay all day. Some come for two sessions and an hour on the floor. Both are fine.

Session details and selection open to registered attendees as the lineup is confirmed.

2026 Sessions Now Available

Register for the Expo and select your sessions.

Quality

Additive

Design

Process

Quality

Eliminate Drawing Translation Errors and Validate Your GD&T Callouts

OGP EVOLVE Suite

Inspectors interpret 2D drawings to automate inspection processes using a 3D model. This often leads to misunderstandings about the required data acquisition and analysis methods. Applying traditional and GD&T tolerances directly to the 3D model can eliminate these errors and increase productivity by providing the inspector with a detailed inspection plan before any programming begins.

Additive

Implementing Additive: From Design to Production

Formlabs

The question isn't whether you should 3D print a part. It's how you build a repeatable process around the technology once you decide to.

This session covers designing for production rather than validation, material selection for parts that go into service, and what it takes to make the fiftieth part the same as the first. With case examples from companies running additive as a production process today.

Metal Parts Surface Finishing with Extreme Control

DLyte by GPAINNOVA

Dry electropolishing used to be a narrow answer to a narrow problem. If your part was too big, too complex, or hollow, the answer was no. That has changed.

Three developments have transformed the process: mass finishing that removes the fixturing requirement, Turbo Flow eliminating size limits, and E-Blast for internal geometries no line-of-sight process can reach. Includes a live demonstration.

Design

Sessions announced soon!

Process

Force and Material Testing in a Regulated Environment

AMETEK Sensors, Test & Calibration · Chatillon and Lloyd

Material tests are often specified in reverse. A machine gets selected, then someone figures out what it can tell them. What happens if you choose the testing machine based on well-designed functional tests instead?

This session covers test design across tension, compression, peel, friction, texture and fatigue, capacity planning, interpreting drawing specifications, and what CFR Part 11 compliance requires from system architecture.

Sessions from Past Expos

The 2026 lineup is still coming together. Here's a sample of what we've covered before, to give you a sense of the depth and format.

Quality

Multisensor Metrology Coordinate Measurement: The New M-Series
CMM Technology: Preparing for the Future with Model-Based Definition
Shop Floor Quick Inspections: The Simple Side of Metrology
Surface Finish for Compliance and Process Control

Additive

Design for Additive Manufacturing vs. Design for Metal Additive Manufacturing
Consistency and On-Demand Large Format 3D Printing
Digital Silicone Tooling Using DLP and MJP Technologies
The SLA Ecosystem and Its Importance to Manufacturing
Printing with High Performance Materials

Design

Reverse Engineering 3D CAD from Scan Data
Automatic Inspection Using Scan Data
3D Scanning and Coordinate Measurement

Process

Surface Finish: Under Control with Automation
Dry Electropolishing for Advanced Manufacturing
3D CT Scanning for Inspection, Reverse Engineering, Porosity, and Composite Fiber Alignment
Data Collection, Reporting, and Process Control

*Sessions run about an hour and are led by applications engineers and technical specialists from the brands themselves. The goal is that you leave with something you can apply to your own work.

Who You'll Meet

Manufacturing technology brands on site with equipment, applications engineers, and technical staff.

Measurement and Inspection