# AI failure detection for 3D printer monitoring **Minimum Plan:** Free AI 3D print failure detection with real-time monitoring. Spot spaghetti, warping and blobs in your 3D printer camera feed, get alerts, and pause or cancel failed jobs automatically on Basic and higher. **Categories:** smart *More than just spaghetti detection* ## AI Failure Detection for any 3D printer Built directly into the SimplyPrint ecosystem, our AI Failure Detection helps you spot print issues early, saving you valuable time, filament and money. ## With 3 detection types - and more to come The SimplyPrint Failure Detection AI currently detects Spaghetti, Warping and Blobbing. Soon, we'll be adding more detection types, such as layer shift, stringing & zits. ## 1-Click AI Failure Detection Enabling AI Failure Detection is as easy as clicking a button. The AI analyzes images from your printer's camera while it prints and notifies you if it detects a failure. On Basic and higher, it can also pause or cancel the print automatically based on your settings. - Enable AI failure detection with 1 click - If we start to spot an error, we'll **notify you** - On Basic and higher, the AI can **pause or cancel** the print automatically based on your settings ## Works with (almost) any 3D printer SimplyPrint is compatible with over 500 different 3D printers; chances are, that yours is one of them! Any printer has the ability to become smart, and AI-enabled; no matter if it has a camera built in, or you add an external one! ## An integrated part of the SimplyPrint ecosystem SimplyPrint is more than just AI failure detection. It's a complete ecosystem for managing your 3D printers with ease. The AI seamlessly integrates with our powerful platform, giving you failure detection, remote control, print history, analytics, and much more - all in one place. ### Inside the printer panel AI predictions render directly in the printer panel in real time. ### Quick gauge overview A gauge view of detected failures, tracked over time. ### Graph view Detected failures plotted as a graph over the print's duration. ### Timeline + statistics AI detections also appear in the job timeline and account stats. ## AI your way: customizable settings You can tune the AI Failure Detection to your liking, by adjusting the detection zones, the sensitivity of the AI model, as well as action & notification settings. ### Detection zones You can adjust the detection zones to fit your printer's build volume. ### Sensitivity & action settings You can adjust the sensitivity of the AI model, as well as the actions to take when a failure is detected. ### Settings per action If you want, you can adjust the action settings for each detection type. ## Multiple printers? Print Farm? School? We've got you! The SimplyPrint AI is not just designed to work with a single printer; it's designed to work with multiple printers, in a print farm, or in a school setting. So no matter what kind of setup you're running, there's time, money and filament to be saved! ## Frequently asked questions ### Does the AI model get trained on my prints? (opt-in data sharing; default off) We know that in this day and age, AI is everywhere, and suddenly all one's data online seem to be contributing to training some AI model. We don't want to be that kind of company; at SimplyPrint we believe in privacy and transparency. Therefore, helping train the AI model (having some of your images "sampled", is **completely opt-in**, and you're asked before we do anything with your data.** TLDR; No.** If you don't want us to train the AI model on your prints, we won't. ### How does the AI work? The AI works by analyzing images from your printer's camera. This means you must have a camera that can be used with SimplyPrint, on your printer. Whether it's a built in camera or an external doesn't matter. The AI model is hosted in the cloud, and the images are sent to the cloud for analysis. If the AI, based on the image, using computer vision, detects a failure, it will act accordingly. ### Is the SimplyPrint AI free? Every account includes **12 hours of AI Failure Detection each month**. That is one allowance for the whole account, shared across all printers, not 12 hours per printer. For monitoring without a time limit, add paid AI licenses on any standard plan, including Free. Each license monitors one printer at a time and can be moved between printers whenever you need. ### Does my printer need a camera? / my printer doesn't have a built-in camera The SimplyPrint AI works by analyzing images from your printer's camera. If your printer doesn't have a built-in camera, you can use a Raspberry Pi camera or a USB webcam. ### Does my printer need to be connected to the internet? Yes. SimplyPrint is a cloud platform, and the AI model is hosted in the cloud. So in order to use the AI Failure Detection, your printer needs to be connected to SimplyPrint, which requires it to be connected to the internet. ## AI & print-farm guides How to add AI failure detection to any 3D printer, and keep a farm running unattended. --- **Learn more:** [Help Article](https://help.simplyprint.io/en/article/1blpac7)