Your AI Agent Can Now Order Real Parts From Our Print Farm
Our quoter is now open to AI agents. Slant 3D is running a public MCP server, which means any MCP-capable assistant — Claude, ChatGPT, a custom agent you built last weekend — can hand us a 3D model, get real production pricing back, and place a real order that prints in our farm and ships to a real address.
No form to fill out. No survey questions. No account, no API key, no sales call.
Why We Built This
Until now, quoting a part meant a person sitting in front of a web form: upload the file, answer what it's for, pick a quantity, work through shipping. That flow is good, and it isn't going anywhere. But it assumes a human is doing the clicking.
More and more, the thing doing the clicking is an agent. Somebody is chatting with an assistant about a bracket they just modeled, and the natural next sentence is "so how much would a hundred of these cost, and can you order them?" Until now that conversation dead-ended at a link.
Now it doesn't. Agents get the same pricing engine, the same materials, the same print farm, and the same fulfillment path as anyone using the site. But they get it in a streamlined way to make sure your agent can get the job done reliably wihtout having to learn the site.
How it works
The whole thing is four steps, and an agent can walk them in a single conversation.
1. Upload the model. The agent sends us an STL, either as a public link or as the raw file. We measure it, check it fits a 220x220x220 mm build volume, and send back pricing at 1, 100 and 1000 units so the customer can see immediately how the price falls with volume.
2. Pick a quantity. One of those standard volumes, or any custom number. Back comes the unit price, the setup fee, the subtotal and the lead time.
3. Add an address. We rate live carrier services to that address and return the options with real prices, along with how the order packs into boxes.
4. Hand over a payment link. The agent gets a checkout link to give the customer. The moment it's paid, the order drops into the print farm and a confirmation email goes out with the order number. From there it's the same pipeline as every other order we run, including the tracking email when the parcel ships.
What else an agent can ask us
Beyond quoting, the server answers the questions that come up around a quote: which materials and filament colors we currently stock — PLA, PETG, CF PETG and our outdoor material OPM — what our services actually do, and what we've written about production printing.
Connecting it
The server lives at https://www.slant3d.com/mcp. It's public: no key, no sign-in, nothing to provision. Point your agent at it and the tools show up.
Full details on each tool are on the MCP server page.
If You're a Developer
An agent isn't always the right answer. If you're writing an app that needs to get pricing and print and ship programmatically, our print API gives you direct access to the farm with proper endpoints and webhooks. And if you'd rather just talk to a person about a production run, get in touch — we still answer those.
We think ordering physical parts should be one sentence away from wherever the idea happens. This is the closest we've gotten.