> ## Knowledge Base Index > Fetch the complete knowledge base index at: https://help.simplyprint.io/sitemap.xml > Use this file to discover available pages before exploring further. > Pure-Markdown content can be obtained by appending a '.md' suffix to the content URLs listed in the sitemap (without the trailing slash). # Downloading, exporting and deleting a project Projects in SimplyPrint never locks your work in: you can take a project's parts, plates and print files out at any time and open them in your own slicer. This guide covers every download, exporting for another slicer, and what happens when you delete a project. | Projects is included in the **Print Farm** and **Enterprise** plans. This guide is part of the [Projects documentation](/en/article/projects-everything-for-one-thing-you-make-from-parts-to-print-files-eoo337/). ## Table of contents - [Downloading from Files](#2-downloading-from-files) - [Exporting a project](#2-exporting-a-project) - [Downloading from inside a project](#2-downloading-from-inside-a-project) - [Plate limits in other slicers](#2-plate-limits-in-other-slicers) - [Deleting a project](#2-deleting-a-project) - [What deleting keeps](#2-what-deleting-keeps) ## Downloading from Files Open the project's menu in **Files** and choose **Download**: - **3MF**: "Settings only. They need slicing again before printing." - **3MF with print files**: "Includes every print file, ready to print. Much larger." ## Exporting a project **Export project**, in the project's menu, opens the export dialog: - **Configuration only**: "The parts, sizes, plates and variants. They are sliced again before printing." - **With sliced files**: includes the print files that are ready, such as "Ready to print, 8 print files." If only some are [sliced](/en/article/plates-printer-setups-and-slicing-in-a-project-zftkhm/), it says how many are included and that the rest will need slicing. It can't be picked while nothing is sliced. - **Settings for**: which setup's slicer settings go into the file. Click **Export**. A zip exported from a project can be [added to a new project](/en/article/creating-a-project-in-simplyprint-and-importing-stl-3mf-and-sliced-files-2kzfbp/) to restore it. ![The Export project dialog for the Honeycomb Desk Organizer: Configuration only and With sliced files choices with their sizes, and Settings for with two setups.](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/f/f/2/2/ff22a914001c1000/06-projects-download-export-de_1enz7iq.png) ## Downloading from inside a project - **Download print files**, in the project's menu: one print file, or a zip of all of them. - **Download all parts**: a zip of every part's file. - On a plate: **Download 3MF**, **Download 3MF for (slicer)**, or **Download plate to slice yourself**. - On a print file: **Download**. ## Plate limits in other slicers Slicers can only open so many plates in one file: Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, Creality Print and ElegooSlicer 36, PrusaSlicer 9, and Cura and Kiri:Moto one. When an export has more plates than the slicer it is for can open, SimplyPrint splits it into a zip of files that each fit. It never splits one model file's plates across two files. ## Deleting a project Choose **Delete project** in the project's menu, or delete it from Files. The confirmation says what happens: - "Files the project uses stay in Your files." - If it is in the [print queue](/en/article/printing-a-project-add-to-print-queue-start-print-and-autoprint-cxsj70/), **Also remove its queue entry** is offered and starts unticked: "Queue entries you keep still print." - A queue entry that is printing stays: "Its queue entry is printing and stays." - A queue entry still waiting to be sliced can't print without the project, so it must be removed too. - If a [Shop product is made from the project](/en/article/projects-and-the-shop-making-a-shop-product-from-a-project-or-variant-hkx3k8/), the confirmation names it. Deleting the project unmaps the product. A project named by a Shop order's item can't be deleted. A deleted project is gone. There is no archive. ## What deleting keeps - Your files: the parts you added from **Your files** stay there. - Queue work you keep: its print files stay printable after the project is deleted. ## Related articles ### Projects - [Projects: everything for one thing you make, from parts to print files](/en/article/projects-everything-for-one-thing-you-make-from-parts-to-print-files-eoo337/) - [Creating a project in SimplyPrint and importing STL, 3MF and sliced files](/en/article/creating-a-project-in-simplyprint-and-importing-stl-3mf-and-sliced-files-2kzfbp/) - [Plates, printer setups and slicing in a project](/en/article/plates-printer-setups-and-slicing-in-a-project-zftkhm/) - [Printing a project: Add to print queue, Start print and AutoPrint](/en/article/printing-a-project-add-to-print-queue-start-print-and-autoprint-cxsj70/) - [Projects and the Shop: making a Shop product from a project or variant](/en/article/projects-and-the-shop-making-a-shop-product-from-a-project-or-variant-hkx3k8/) ### Files - [The file manager: your 3D printing file library in the cloud](/en/article/the-file-manager-your-3d-printing-file-library-in-the-cloud-mt36mf/) - [Uploading files and splitting multi-plate 3MF files](/en/article/uploading-files-and-splitting-multi-plate-3mf-files-1dpbgrz/)