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The SimplyPrint integrations: connect your CAD, slicer and automation tools

The SimplyPrint integrations: connect your CAD, slicer and automation tools


SimplyPrint plugs into the tools you already use - your CAD program, your slicer, your filament label printer, and the way you connect your printers. This guide is the full catalog: what each integration does, who builds it, and where to set it up. Most of them are one-click "send to SimplyPrint" buttons that drop a model or sliced file straight into your account, ready to slice, queue, or print.


You can browse the live, filterable catalog any time at simplyprint.io/integrations.


Most integrations here are free and work on every plan - the send-to plugins, browser extensions, connection gateways, cloud storage and sign-in. A few depend on a paid feature: AutoPrint and the Zapier integration are part of the Pro plan, and direct printing to a label printer is part of the filament manager. Each is called out in its own section.


What's in this guide


CAD and 3D modeling

These add a SimplyPrint button to your modeling app. Design your part, click send, and SimplyPrint opens in your browser with the model loaded - no manual STL export, no SD cards, no juggling files between programs. You sign in to SimplyPrint once per plugin, then sending is a single click.


Tool

What it does

Guide

Fusion 360

Adds a SimplyPrint button to Fusion's UTILITIES and MAKE panels. Export STL or 3MF - the whole design, selected bodies, or specific components - with Low / Medium / High mesh presets or custom tuning.

Fusion 360 integration

SketchUp

Adds a SimplyPrint toolbar plus File and right-click menu entries. Sends the whole model or just your selection, auto-converts inches/feet to millimeters, and warns about non-manifold geometry.

SketchUp integration

Tinkercad

Built straight into Tinkercad - no install needed. Send your design to your printer in a few clicks.

Tinkercad integration

Blender

Adds a SimplyPrint panel to Blender's sidebar. Pick a printer, choose STL, OBJ or 3MF, and send straight to slicing or your queue.

Blender integration

LutraCAD

Insole and orthotic design software. Send your sliced insole designs from LutraCAD directly to SimplyPrint.

LutraCAD integration

FreeCAD

Tessellate parametric solids on the fly and send STL, 3MF or OBJ to SimplyPrint. Adapts to the active workbench (Part, Mesh, Assembly).

FreeCAD integration


Slicer integrations

If you prefer to slice on your desktop, these plugins push the finished file straight from your slicer into SimplyPrint - no SD card, no USB stick. Queue it, save it for later, or print it right away.


Slicer

What it does

Guide

OrcaSlicer

Send sliced files directly from OrcaSlicer to your SimplyPrint account. Built with the OrcaSlicer maintainers.

OrcaSlicer integration

Cura

The SimplyPrint plugin for Cura, installable from the Cura marketplace. Send sliced files straight to SimplyPrint.

Cura integration

ElegooSlicer

Send sliced files directly from ElegooSlicer to SimplyPrint.

ElegooSlicer integration


Prefer to slice in the cloud? You don't need any of these - SimplyPrint has a built-in browser slicer. See the Cloud Slicer feature.


Browser extensions

Our browser extension adds a one-click Send to SimplyPrint button to Thingiverse and Printables, so you can import a model straight into your files, queue, or slicer without downloading it first. It also drops a SimplyPrint button on your browser toolbar for quick access to the panel.


There's a version for Chrome, Firefox and Edge - and the Chrome one works in any Chromium browser (Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and others). One guide covers all three:



Label printers

Generate a QR-code or barcode label for any spool in your filament inventory and send it straight to a thermal label printer over USB - no PDF and no import step. A small free desktop client bridges the browser and your printer, and a built-in template editor with live preview lets you lay the label out exactly how you want.


Direct printing to a Zebra or DYMO is part of the filament manager, which is included on the Pro plan and up (and available as a paid add-on on lower plans). Generating label PDFs and QR codes is available more widely - see the filament manager guide below for the details.


Printer

What it does

Guide

Zebra

Print labels to a Zebra thermal printer via the free Zebra Browser Print client. Built-in ZPL template editor with live preview - the high-volume choice for labeling a whole farm's spools.

See how it works

DYMO

Print labels to a DYMO LabelWriter via the free DYMO Connect client. Built-in DYMO template editor with live preview. Pick a spool, click print, peel and stick.

See how it works


For everything about filament labels and scanning, see the filament manager.


Connection gateways

These are the ways your printers actually talk to SimplyPrint. Most users connect with the SimplyPrint Client, but if your printer already runs OctoPrint or Klipper, you can use that instead.


Gateway

What it does

Guide

OctoPrint

Connect any OctoPrint-enabled printer by installing our plugin from the OctoPrint plugin repository.

OctoPrint setup

Moonraker (Klipper)

Built into Moonraker - add [simplyprint] to your Moonraker config to connect a Klipper printer, no extra install needed.

Moonraker setup

Mainsail / Fluidd

Klipper web interfaces that run on top of Moonraker - connect them the same way.

simplyprint.io/integrations


New to connecting printers? Start with connecting a printer with the SimplyPrint Client - it covers the most common path for most printers.


Cloud storage and calendar

Connect these from your account settings to pull files in or sync your schedule out. Both are connected per user.


  • Google Drive - store and access your 3D files from Google Drive.
  • Google Calendar - sync your print schedules to Google Calendar.


Sign-in providers

You can sign in to SimplyPrint with Google, Microsoft or Discord instead of a password. These are the same accounts schools and businesses use for single sign-on. For organization-wide SSO with auto-provisioning, see setting up single sign-on with OpenID Connect.


AutoPrint hardware

AutoPrint lets a printer clear its own bed and start the next job, so it keeps printing unattended. SimplyPrint ships ready-made profiles for a range of bed-clearing mods and ejection systems - from printable STL kits to belt printers and commercial cells.


AutoPrint is part of the Pro plan. The Pro plan includes one AutoPrint license, the Print Farm plan includes unlimited licenses, and School and Enterprise plans include it too. The hardware mods themselves are sold by their makers.


The full list of supported methods and how to set each one up lives in its own cluster:



Supported mods include FarmLoop, swapmod, the InnoCube SwapMod for the A1, the 3DQue ejection kit, Printflow3D, Loop, JobOx, the 3DPrintomat, belt printers, Chitu PlateCycler, and the built-in AutoClear and AutoSwap profiles.


Automation tools

SimplyPrint exposes a full REST API, so you can wire it into the rest of your stack with no-code automation platforms - create queue items from a form, post a message when a print finishes, sync orders, and so on.


  • Zapier is the named SimplyPrint integration for no-code automations. The Zapier integration is part of the Pro plan.
  • n8n, Make and ActivePieces can connect to SimplyPrint through the API using an API key or OAuth.
  • For developers, the SimplyPrint API is the foundation everything else builds on.


We're polishing the step-by-step automation guides right now. In the meantime, the API guide above covers authentication and the core endpoints, which is everything you need to build an automation by hand or in any of these platforms.


How integrations connect to SimplyPrint

Integrations connect in one of a few ways, and knowing which is which helps you set them up:


  • Send-to plugins (CAD and slicers) - you install a plugin in the other app and sign in to SimplyPrint once. The plugin uploads files to your account. Nothing to configure inside SimplyPrint.
  • Browser-bridge clients (label printers) - a small free desktop app (Zebra Browser Print or DYMO Connect) lets your browser talk to a USB printer. You install it once on the computer with the printer attached.
  • Account connections (Google Drive, Google Calendar) - you authorize SimplyPrint to access the service from your account settings, and you can revoke it there too.
  • Gateways (OctoPrint, Moonraker) - these run on or alongside your printer and report in to SimplyPrint. This is how the printer itself connects.
  • API and automation - external tools authenticate with an API key or OAuth and call SimplyPrint's API.


The send-to plugins and label clients don't need any setup inside SimplyPrint - just install, sign in, and go. Account connections and API access are managed from your account settings.



Updated on: 26/06/2026

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