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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.


Table of contents


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, 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 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.


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, 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, 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.


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Updated on: 06/11/2026

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