The file detail panel: previews, print details and actions

Click any file in the file manager and a detail panel opens on the right. It is the single place to see everything SimplyPrint knows about a file - a 3D preview, the parsed slicer settings, print time and cost, which printers can run it - and to act on it: print, queue, slice, download, move, rename or delete.

This is part of the file manager documentation.

In this guide

• Opening the detail panel
• 3D and gcode preview
• Print details
• Slicer settings
• Cost estimate
• Printer compatibility
• Tags and custom fields
• File actions
• Related articles

Opening the detail panel

Click a single file in the browser (in either grid or list view) to open its detail panel on the right. The panel updates as you click different files, so you can step through your library without closing it.

3D and gcode preview

The top of the panel shows an interactive 3D preview you can rotate and zoom. For a printable file, a Gcode preview button opens a layer-by-layer view of the toolpaths.

Print details

For a printable file, the panel lists the details SimplyPrint pulled from the file during analysis, which can include:

• File size
• Print time - the estimated duration
• Print size - the physical dimensions of the print
• Filament usage - per material, with colour
• Temperatures - the print temperatures detected
• Slicer used and its version
• Layer height, first layer height and total layers
• Times printed and success rate
• Times sliced (for model files you can slice)
• Uploaded date

Where these details come from is explained in the Gcode Analysis feature.

Slicer settings

Below the details, a quick row of icons summarizes the main slicer settings parsed from the file - layer height, infill percentage, shells and whether supports were enabled - so you can sanity-check a file at a glance without opening it in a slicer.

Cost estimate

The panel shows an estimated print cost for the file. The basic estimate, based on material use, is available on every plan. The more detailed cost breakdown that adds printer run-time, electricity and labour is part of the Print Farm plan and up. The full picture, including how to set your rates, is in the print cost calculations feature.

Printer compatibility

SimplyPrint checks the file against your printers - build volume, nozzle size and assigned material - and tells you if any of them cannot run it. If some printers do not support the file you will see an info note; if none of them do, you get a warning instead. You can also assign a file to specific printers, printer models or printer groups from the panel, so it is only offered to compatible machines when you print or queue it.

Tags and custom fields

You can set tags on a file from the panel - filament type, nozzle size and colour. Tags are what SimplyPrint matches against when deciding which printer can run a job, so tagging a file correctly keeps it from being sent to the wrong machine.

If your account uses custom fields for files, those fields appear in the panel too, and you can edit their values per file. Values you set on a file can carry over automatically to a print job started from it.

File actions

The panel gives you the full set of actions for the file, shown according to your permissions:

• Slice and print - open a model file in the slicer
• Print file - start the print, picking from compatible printers
• Add to print queue
• Download
• Move to another folder
• Rename
• Delete

Related articles

• The file manager
• Uploading files and the plate splitter
• Folders and shared folders
• The Gcode Analysis feature
• The print cost calculations feature
• All about the custom fields feature

Updated on: 25/06/2026