Metamorphic AM will use
Formnext 2026 to demonstrate a broader vision for Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM), bringing together its advanced engineering consultancy, Rapid Geometry Review service, and new Morphé computational-design platform to Hall 12.1, Booth E76 alongside
Voxshell.
Taking place in Frankfurt from 17–20 November 2026, Formnext brings together the international additive manufacturing community across the industrial AM process chain. For Metamorphic, the event will demonstrate how organisations can engage with advanced DfAM at very different levels.
At one end, Rapid Geometry Review provides a fast, commercially accessible route to expert scrutiny of existing AM geometry before costly build decisions are made. At the other, Metamorphic continues to undertake complex, high-value engineering programmes in areas including quantum technologies, energy systems, and other demanding applications where geometry must be developed around physics, function, manufacturability, and performance rather than preset optimisation workflows.
Sitting alongside both will be Morphé, Metamorphic’s new Rhino 8/Grasshopper plugin for implicit modelling, voxel processing, and vector-field-driven geometry. Morphé was developed through Metamorphic’s own engineering work, and keeps advanced geometry connected to the parameters, data, optimisation, and design logic from which it was generated.
The decision to exhibit alongside Voxshell is therefore highly deliberate. Voxshell develops automated meshing technology for CFD and FEA, with its ChopMesh platform focused on rapidly converting complex geometry into simulation-ready volumetric meshes.
At Formnext, visitors will see a new Morphé-to-ChopMesh workflow demonstrator. Morphé now supports direct OpenVDB (.VDB) export, enabling geometry generated within Grasshopper to move directly into ChopMesh for conversion into volumetric CFD and FEA meshes, removing the need for intermediate STL repair and extensive manual clean-up. The result is a compelling connected workflow, generate complex, function-driven geometry in Morphé, transfer it directly into ChopMesh, and move towards simulation-ready models in minutes rather than allowing preprocessing to become another engineering bottleneck.
Laurence Coles, co-founder and mechanical design lead at Metamorphic AM, said: “Formnext gives us an opportunity to show the complete philosophy behind Metamorphic. We can help somebody interrogate an existing design through Rapid Geometry Review, work with them on an exceptionally difficult engineering problem, or give computational designers tools that allow them to explore sophisticated geometry themselves through Morphé.”
Manolis Papastavrou, co-founder and computational design lead, adds, “The connection with Voxshell is particularly exciting because it demonstrates where these workflows should be heading. Creating advanced geometry is only valuable if engineers can analyse and iterate it efficiently. Moving directly from Morphé into ChopMesh brings geometry generation and simulation preparation much closer together.”