Formlabs PreForm

PreForm®

Powerful 3D Print Preparation Software

Prepare your prints automatically in minutes and upload them seamlessly to your Formlabs SLA or SLS 3D printers. PreForm has all the tools you need to achieve professional-quality prints. Offered totally for free, with no licenses, annual fees, or installation limits, PreForm ensures your workflow is smooth and worry-free.

OS X 10.15 or higher
Requirements

Windows 7 (64-bit) or higher
Requirements

PreForm Features

PreForm’s automatic algorithms set up your print’s layout, orientation, and supports, so anyone on your team can print successfully without specialized training.

 

Go From 3D Model To Part Quickly

Effortlessly generate supports for complex models with a single click or take full control by customizing support placement. PreForm’s intelligent algorithms ensure strong, minimally invasive supports for optimal printing results.

Go From 3D Model To Part Quickly

Effortlessly generate supports for complex models with a single click or take full control by customizing support placement. PreForm’s intelligent algorithms ensure strong, minimally invasive supports for optimal printing results.

Print With Confidence Out Of The Box

Set up print jobs with confidence, using print settings tuned and validated for Formlabs' entire materials library by our in-house team of printing experts.

Print With Confidence Out Of The Box

Set up print jobs with confidence, using print settings tuned and validated for Formlabs' entire materials library by our in-house team of printing experts.

Customize for Your Specific Needs

Tailor print performance for Formlabs materials and certified third-party materials by customizing a range of print settings such as exposure, layer height, heating for SLA, or layer thickness, XYZ correction factors, and exposure for SLS.

Customize for Your Specific Needs

Tailor print performance for Formlabs materials and certified third-party materials by customizing a range of print settings such as exposure, layer height, heating for SLA, or layer thickness, XYZ correction factors, and exposure for SLS.

Powerful Tools To Make 3D Printing a Breeze

Maximize your ROI on Fuse Series SLS printers with powerful automatic 3D packing. Increase throughput and reduce material waste by optimizing the packing density, with the option to lock individual model orientation and position to ensure consistency for demanding parts.

Powerful Tools To Make 3D Printing a Breeze

Maximize your ROI on Fuse Series SLS printers with powerful automatic 3D packing. Increase throughput and reduce material waste by optimizing the packing density, with the option to lock individual model orientation and position to ensure consistency for demanding parts.

Easily Integrate Into Any Workflow


Import models from a wide range of CAD applications without any additional processing steps. 
*CAD import support will be available in PreForm 3.42.0

Easily Integrate Into Any Workflow


Import models from a wide range of CAD applications without any additional processing steps. 
*CAD import support will be available in PreForm 3.42.0

Integrations

Streamline your model creation to printing workflow with native integrations in the most popular design software. Go from design to printer in a few clicks.

Formlabs API

Build integrations into the Formlabs software ecosystem with the powerful new Formlabs API. Automate design-to-print workflows with CAD integrations, automate batch production, and connect printers to MES and other software. The Formlabs API gives you access to powerful infrastructure to build better integrations in other applications and automate workflows to go from design to printed part effortlessly. Design, develop, support, and launch your feature or integration with Formlabs API.

Get Started With the Formlabs API

Build Native CAD Integrations

Unlock the ability to print on Formlabs printers from your CAD application. 

Use the API to prepare models for printing, slicing, and uploading jobs to a printer.

CAD integrations
Automated Batch Production

Automated Batch Production

Prepare hundreds of parts for printing with automated batch processing. 

Automate print preparation — orientation, layout, support generation — and send jobs to printers automatically.

Connect Printers to Other Software

Monitor print progress, and printer status by connecting Formlabs printers to MES and other software.

Upcoming integrations using the Formlabs API:

  • Materialise CO-AM (scheduled for release in Q4 2024)
Connect Printers to Other Software

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Monitor And Manage Your 3D Printers Online

Follow your prints online, track consumables and service coverage, organize printers and manage access, and get notifications when a print is finished — all for free.

Fleet Control

Advanced 3D Printer Fleet Management

Simplify how you manage a fleet of Formlabs SLA 3D printers and a group of users. Unlock true automation and optimize your workflow for maximum fleet productivity.

Download PreForm®

OS X 10.15 or higher.
Requirements

Windows 7 (64-bit) or higher.
Requirements