Manufactured object identification

An apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• a computer readable storage coupled to the processor;
• and
• an instruction set to cooperate with the processor and the computer readable storage to:
• obtain an object scan of an object manufactured by a 3D manufacturing apparatus, the object manufactured according to an object data file defining the object geometry and a region of interest of the object, the object comprising a manufacturing parameter identifier in the region of interest indicating a manufacturing parameter of the manufactured object;
• align the obtained object scan with an object representation obtained from the object data file;
• extract the region of interest from the aligned object scan according to the region of interest defined in the object data file;
• and
• read the manufacturing parameter identifier in the region of interest of the aligned object scan.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

• match a 3D object scan of a 3D manufactured object according to a CAD object data file with a 3D representation of the object from the CAD object data, wherein the 3D manufactured object comprises a region of interest containing a label, the label identifying a manufacturing parameter associated with the 3D manufactured object;
• identify the region of interest in the 3D object scan based on the region of interest in the 3D representation;
• and
• obtain the manufacturing parameter from the region of interest identified in the 3D object scan.