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.
2026 Sessions Now Available
Register for the Expo and select your sessions.
All Sessions
Quality
Additive
Design
Process
Digital Zoom Lets You See More. Virtual Zoom Lets You Measure More.
Quality
Most people treat zoom as a magnification problem. On a measurement system it's an accuracy problem.
A mechanical zoom has moving elements that wear and drift. A digital zoom just enlarges pixels. Virtual zoom does something different. Covers telecentricity and why distortion matters, fixed lens versus mechanical zoom, and what the line-wide shift delivered in throughput and accuracy.
Force and Material Testing in a Regulated Environment
Process
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.
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.
Eliminate Drawing Translation Errors and Validate Your GD&T Callouts
Design · Quality · Process
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.
Why You Shouldn't Glue Parts Together
Additive
When a part is too big for your printer, the instinct is to print it in sections and bond them. Every joint introduces tolerance stacking, and the finished part drifts from what was designed.
Printing full scale removes the question entirely. Covers where tolerance stacking comes from in bonded assemblies, what changes structurally when a part is printed as one piece, and applications in transportation where full-scale printing is already in service.
Metal Parts Surface Finishing with Extreme Control
Additive · Process
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.
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.
Implementing Additive: From Design to Production
Additive
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.
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.
One Sensor at a Time Is a Choice You Shouldn't Have to Make
Quality
A traditional CMM gives you one sensor and a tool change. For a part with features that need tactile, optical, and laser measurement, that means multiple setups or multiple machines.
VersaFlex puts up to three sensors on an articulating head, simultaneously available. Covers where single-sensor measurement breaks down, the full sensor range and which feature types each suits, and honest positioning on where FlexPoint fits.
Inside the Cell: CT Inspection for Battery Manufacturing
Quality · Process · 10:00 AM
Grace Busse, Glimpse, with RX Solutions
The defects that decide whether a battery cell is safe are inside it: anode overhang, misaligned electrodes, voids, and stray particles. CT can see them without cutting the cell open.
This session covers how scans from RX Solutions CT systems feed automated analysis of cylindrical, pouch, prismatic, and coin cells, and how the same approach serves R&D teams and production lines alike.
Increase Throughput With Advanced Image Processing
Process · Quality · 10:00 AM
Tony Frisina, VIEW Micro Metrology
When a part carries thousands of identical micro features, the measurement problem stops being accuracy and becomes time.
This session covers the hardware and software upgrades that let VIEW systems capture 3D data faster, with Blob analysis and Area Multi-Focus working together, and what existing users need to get there.
Walk the Floor Once: As-Built Scans of Entire Facilities
Design · 10:00 AM
Nolan Doktor, Artec 3D
Every line move, expansion, and equipment install starts with a floor plan that rarely matches the building anymore. Artec Jet captures entire spaces as fast as you can walk them.
Nolan scanned a 6,700-seat stadium, inside and out, in 30 minutes. This session covers how it works and how a walk-through becomes usable as-built data.
Surface Finish on the Shop Floor: Repeatable Roughness Measurement Where Parts Are Made
Process · Quality · 11:00 AM
Surface finish specs keep tightening, and most shops still check roughness in the lab, away from the machine and after the fact.
This session covers what the roughness callouts on your prints actually mean, and how to get repeatable readings where parts are made. Includes a live demonstration.
From Scan to Solid: Reverse Engineering Parts You Have to Rebuild
Design · 2:00 PM
Juan Gil, Hexagon Geomagic
The drawings are gone. The manufacturer is gone. The part still has to be made. A scan gets you a mesh, but a mesh isn't a model.
This session takes a legacy part from point cloud to editable, manufacturable CAD, live, including what's new in Design X 2026.2.
Digital Zoom Lets You See More. Virtual Zoom Lets You Measure More.
Quality
Most people treat zoom as a magnification problem. On a measurement system it's an accuracy problem.
A mechanical zoom has moving elements that wear and drift. A digital zoom just enlarges pixels. Virtual zoom does something different. Covers telecentricity and why distortion matters, fixed lens versus mechanical zoom, and what the line-wide shift delivered in throughput and accuracy.
One Sensor at a Time Is a Choice You Shouldn't Have to Make
Quality
A traditional CMM gives you one sensor and a tool change. For a part with features that need tactile, optical, and laser measurement, that means multiple setups or multiple machines.
VersaFlex puts up to three sensors on an articulating head, simultaneously available. Covers where single-sensor measurement breaks down, the full sensor range and which feature types each suits, and honest positioning on where FlexPoint fits.
Eliminate Drawing Translation Errors and Validate Your GD&T Callouts
Design · Quality · Process
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.
Inside the Cell: CT Inspection for Battery Manufacturing
Quality · Process · 10:00 AM
Grace Busse, Glimpse, with RX Solutions
The defects that decide whether a battery cell is safe are inside it: anode overhang, misaligned electrodes, voids, and stray particles. CT can see them without cutting the cell open.
This session covers how scans from RX Solutions CT systems feed automated analysis of cylindrical, pouch, prismatic, and coin cells, and how the same approach serves R&D teams and production lines alike.
Increase Throughput With Advanced Image Processing
Process · Quality · 10:00 AM
Tony Frisina, VIEW Micro Metrology
When a part carries thousands of identical micro features, the measurement problem stops being accuracy and becomes time.
This session covers the hardware and software upgrades that let VIEW systems capture 3D data faster, with Blob analysis and Area Multi-Focus working together, and what existing users need to get there.
Surface Finish on the Shop Floor: Repeatable Roughness Measurement Where Parts Are Made
Process · Quality · 11:00 AM
Surface finish specs keep tightening, and most shops still check roughness in the lab, away from the machine and after the fact.
This session covers what the roughness callouts on your prints actually mean, and how to get repeatable readings where parts are made. Includes a live demonstration.
Implementing Additive: From Design to Production
Additive
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.
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
Additive
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.
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.
Why You Shouldn't Glue Parts Together
Additive
When a part is too big for your printer, the instinct is to print it in sections and bond them. Every joint introduces tolerance stacking, and the finished part drifts from what was designed.
Printing full scale removes the question entirely. Covers where tolerance stacking comes from in bonded assemblies, what changes structurally when a part is printed as one piece, and applications in transportation where full-scale printing is already in service.
Eliminate Drawing Translation Errors and Validate Your GD&T Callouts
Design · Quality · Process
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.
Walk the Floor Once: As-Built Scans of Entire Facilities
Design · 10:00 AM
Nolan Doktor, Artec 3D
Every line move, expansion, and equipment install starts with a floor plan that rarely matches the building anymore. Artec Jet captures entire spaces as fast as you can walk them.
Nolan scanned a 6,700-seat stadium, inside and out, in 30 minutes. This session covers how it works and how a walk-through becomes usable as-built data.
From Scan to Solid: Reverse Engineering Parts You Have to Rebuild
Design · 2:00 PM
Juan Gil, Hexagon Geomagic
The drawings are gone. The manufacturer is gone. The part still has to be made. A scan gets you a mesh, but a mesh isn't a model.
This session takes a legacy part from point cloud to editable, manufacturable CAD, live, including what's new in Design X 2026.2.
Force and Material Testing in a Regulated Environment
Process
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.
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.
Metal Parts Surface Finishing with Extreme Control
Additive · Process
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.
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.
Inside the Cell: CT Inspection for Battery Manufacturing
Quality · Process · 10:00 AM
Grace Busse, Glimpse, with RX Solutions
The defects that decide whether a battery cell is safe are inside it: anode overhang, misaligned electrodes, voids, and stray particles. CT can see them without cutting the cell open.
This session covers how scans from RX Solutions CT systems feed automated analysis of cylindrical, pouch, prismatic, and coin cells, and how the same approach serves R&D teams and production lines alike.
Increase Throughput With Advanced Image Processing
Process · Quality · 10:00 AM
Tony Frisina, VIEW Micro Metrology
When a part carries thousands of identical micro features, the measurement problem stops being accuracy and becomes time.
This session covers the hardware and software upgrades that let VIEW systems capture 3D data faster, with Blob analysis and Area Multi-Focus working together, and what existing users need to get there.
Surface Finish on the Shop Floor: Repeatable Roughness Measurement Where Parts Are Made
Process · Quality · 11:00 AM
Surface finish specs keep tightening, and most shops still check roughness in the lab, away from the machine and after the fact.
This session covers what the roughness callouts on your prints actually mean, and how to get repeatable readings where parts are made. Includes a live demonstration.
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
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
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.
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.
8:45 AM
Welcome and opening remarks
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Session Block 1 (Additive Session A, Quality Session A, Process Session A, and Design Session A)
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Session Block 2 (Additive Session B, Quality Session B, Process Session B, and Design Session B)
11:00 – 12:00 PM
Session Block 3 (Additive Session C, Quality Session C, Process Session C, and Design Session C)
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Lunch provided. Equipment stations stay open.
1:30 – 2:30 PM
Session Block 4 (Additive Session D, Quality Session D, Process Session D, and Design Session D)
2:30 – 3:30 PM
Session Block 5 (TBA)
3:45 PM
Closing remarks
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.
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
3D Scanning
Additive Manufacturing
Process and Finishing
Sensors and Calibration
*More brands confirming. Full list and session details announced soon.
Additional Details
Parking
On-site parking available.
Cost
Free to attend. Breakfast, lunch and refreshments provided.
Questions
Call (408) 486-6000 or email us
