# Formlabs Local API (PreFormServer)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/formlabs/formlabs-local-api/  
**Provider:** Formlabs — https://apis.io/providers/formlabs/  
**Base URL:** http://localhost  
**Documentation:** https://formlabs-dashboard-api-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/formlabs-local-api-latest.html

Formlabs Local API (PreFormServer) is one of 6 APIs that [Formlabs](https://apis.io/providers/formlabs/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Local API, PreForm, and Job Preparation. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

Local-network REST API served by the PreFormServer application for automating job preparation (import, auto-orient, auto-support, auto-layout, hollow, label), scene management, print-time estimation, and sending jobs to a printer or Fleet Control without launching the PreForm GUI.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://formlabs.my.site.com/customerV2/s/article/Formlabs-Local-API
- **APIReference** — https://formlabs-dashboard-api-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/formlabs-local-api-latest.html
- **SDKs** — https://github.com/Formlabs/formlabs-api-python
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/formlabs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Formlabs APIs (5)

- [Formlabs Consumables API](https://apis.io/apis/formlabs/formlabs-consumables-api/)
- [Formlabs Events API](https://apis.io/apis/formlabs/formlabs-events-api/)
- [Formlabs Groups API](https://apis.io/apis/formlabs/formlabs-groups-api/)
- [Formlabs Printers API](https://apis.io/apis/formlabs/formlabs-printers-api/)
- [Formlabs Prints API](https://apis.io/apis/formlabs/formlabs-prints-api/)

## Tags

Local API, PreForm, Job Preparation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/formlabs/formlabs-local-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/formlabs/.