3D Print-Scan-Measure Expo 2026 Sessions
Quality
Additive
Process
Eliminate Drawing Translation Errors and Validate Your GD&T Callouts
Brand: OGP EVOLVE Suite
Presenter: Indicate Technologies & OGP
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 (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing) 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.
What this session covers
What MBD (Model Based Design) actually changes. Moving from drawing interpretation to a model carrying unambiguous GD&T qualifications, and what that does to programming time and the opportunities for error.
Where translation errors come from. Drawings leave gaps around data acquisition and analysis method. Inspectors fill those gaps with assumptions, and the assumptions vary.
Converting what you already have. Most manufacturers have decades of 2D prints and no path to MBD that doesn't involve redrawing everything. The conversion process, what the output looks like, and how to adapt and enhance rather than redraw.
QIF (Quality Information Framework). The open ISO (International Organization for Standardization) file format EVOLVE Design creates, and the starting point for any Industry 4.0 inspection workflow. Modern CAD packages all support QIF, so the differentiator is not the format itself but the compliance behind it. EVOLVE Design is fully compliant to multiple GD&T standards.
Why it works regardless of your equipment. The software is machine-agnostic, so the decision isn't tied to a capital purchase.
Handing a spec to a supplier without ambiguity. An MBD file communicates intent and requirements in a way a drawing plus a phone call never can.
Relevant if you work in
Semiconductor · Medical device · Aerospace · Supply chain management and reshoring
Session length: 45 minutes with time for questions
Seats are limited.
Implementing Additive: From Design to Production
Brand: Formlabs
Presenter: 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.
What this session covers
Designing for the process, not around it. What changes when the part is intended for production rather than validation, and where design decisions determine whether the process scales.
Material selection for end use. What the material has to deliver in service rather than on a desk, and the gap between a datasheet number and part performance.
Building repeatability. Making the fiftieth part the same as the first. Process control, material handling, and the operational discipline that separates a production line from a prototype shop.
Case examples from production environments. Companies running additive as a production process today, what they built to get there, and what they learned along the way.
The validation question. How you prove a printed part is what you think it is, which connects to the measurement sessions elsewhere in the program.
Relevant if you work in
Transportation and autonomy · Aerospace · Consumer products · Medical device · Supply chain and reshoring
Session length: 45 minutes with time for questions
Seats are limited.
Metal Parts Surface Finishing with Extreme Control: From mirror to matte finishes, identical every time
Brand: DLyte by GPAINNOVA
Presenter: DLyte
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. Dry electropolishing now brings unprecedented control to manufactured part surfaces.
What this session covers
The application of DLyte has transformed into a part-centric approach. Three developments are accelerating adoption:
Mass finishing without fixturing. No more holding each part in a specific orientation. Removing that requirement changes both labor cost and batch economics.
Turbo Flow and the end of size limits. Large component challenges are no longer an issue. Where the limits of part size now sit, and what that means for bringing finishing in house.
E-Blast for internal geometries. Piping, internal channels, and cavities no line-of-sight process could reach.
Plus updated case examples from applications that were not possible two years ago, and a live demonstration during the session.
Relevant if you work in
Medical device · Metal additive · Aerospace · Semiconductor · Robotic surgery
Session length: 45 minutes with time for questions
Seats are limited.
Force and Material Testing in a Regulated Environment
Brand: AMETEK Sensors, Test & Calibration · Chatillon and Lloyd
Presenter: AMETEK Sensors, Test & Calibration
Material tests are often specified in a reverse-logical order. After a testing machine is selected, someone figures out what it can tell them. Then one of those tests is adopted. What could be the benefits from an approach that chooses the testing machine based on well-designed functional tests?
What this session covers
Designing functional material tests. Tension, compression, peel, friction, texture, fatigue. What stresses will the part experience during use, and which tests replicate those stresses.
Capacity considerations, and whether bigger is always better. What test range you need now, whether to plan for an expanded range, and the tradeoffs between a handheld gauge, a benchtop tester, and a full frame.
Interpreting drawing specifications. What the part spec means relative to test system specifications, and sources of measurement error that may surprise you.
Frame and control impacts. What's needed to enable reliable tests with documented results. Single versus dual column, manual versus motorized, and the software layer that turns a force reading into a documented result.
Compliance and documentation. What regulated industries require for electronic records and signatures under CFR Part 11, and how system architecture either supports that or fights it.
Relevant if you work in
Medical device · Pharmaceutical and drug delivery · Packaging · Transportation · Batteries · Compliance-driven manufacturing
Session length: 45 minutes with time for questions
Seats are limited.
