“One at 120 × 140, tilt-and-turn, left-handed, like the other one.” A pencil sketch, the photo of an opening. That is how many orders reach the factory, and that is how the ones that go wrong come back. With a 3D configurator, your network choose size, handing and finish while looking at the piece, with its price, and you receive an order sheet that needs no interpreting.
Monday, first thing, in the technical office of an exterior joinery manufacturer. Waiting in the inbox and on the company WhatsApp are the weekend's orders: a template filled in by hand and scanned crooked, the photo of a sketch, a voice message from an installer dictating measurements from the van. PVC windows, a security door, motorised roller blinds and the subframe list for a development. Before anything is made, someone has to understand it and copy it by hand onto the production sheet.
Half of them come with a doubt. The window says “left”, but not from where. The door has “bar”, but not which one. The blind asks for “motor”, without saying whether with a switch or an app. Every doubt is a call to a busy distributor or an installer up on scaffolding. Meanwhile, in the showroom, a homeowner asks for the price of three windows and a door and leaves with a catalogue and a “we'll call you”, because the factory calculates the price.
Three weeks later, on site, the mistake nobody saw appears: a sash that opens the wrong way, a blind box that was not the renovation one, hinges on the other side. Nobody lied; everyone read the order their own way. The piece comes back, is made again and fitted again. And the following Monday, the inbox is full of photos again.
At the factory, in the showroom, in the van and at the residents' meeting. Under each phrase, how it gets solved.
The distributor has the customer in the showroom and can only give a figure from memory. For a serious price they have to ask about opening, profile, glass and blind and wait for the factory. By the time it arrives, the customer has already asked two others.
With the configuratorAn indicative price with your price list and each distributor's discounts, recalculated with every change.
One letter on a sketch works for two pieces: the one seen from the street and the one seen from inside. The window comes out perfect in size, opens the wrong way and it is discovered on site.
With the configuratorThe piece opens in 3D and the handing is chosen by looking at it, with the hinges in view. That is how it goes on the order.
Without the opening, the use or the vehicle that drives through, a price over the phone is a risk. Someone takes the car to measure a warehouse door or a gate, even if the visit ends in “we'll let you know”.
With the configuratorDimensions, a person for scale, the lorry in front of the opening and the space the sliding door needs, before calling you.
Acoustic glass, security slats, a five-point lock, the blind motor. Explaining it with a piece of card costs more than selling it, and the customer sticks with the basics.
With the configuratorEvery option with its price, including motors and sensors, and labels on the piece explaining what each glass, slat or lock adds.
Every distributor orders their own way: template, email, photo or voice message. In the office someone copies it by hand, and a miscopied figure reaches the cutting line as is.
With the configuratorA factory order sheet with references and quantities, always the same; with your rules, what cannot be made is flagged before it is sent.
Two hundred openings, several versions and measurements in centimetres and in millimetres. Working out metres and blind boxes takes hours, and the pallets arrive without knowing which home each piece is for.
With the configuratorUnits per opening, metres calculated automatically, the cost of urgency before confirming and a label per opening and home.
The couple choosing the door, the manager signing off the loading-bay doors, the residents voting on the lift cabin. They get a PDF with a table and a price at the bottom.
With the configuratorUp to three options side by side and the configuration as a PDF, image, link or QR code, to see it at full size with augmented reality.
Five stops with paper, phone and spreadsheet. At each one, time is lost or a mistake slips in.
The customer asks for a price with a photo. You lose: the sale, if the price takes too long.
Writes the order down their own way and sends it to the factory. You lose: the detail they did not write down.
Calls to clarify handing, glass, colour or motor, and types it in. You lose: hours every week.
Makes what the paper says. You lose: a made-to-measure piece that fits no other opening.
The installer discovers the mistake with the piece in hand. You lose: a second trip and the customer's trust.
The problem is not the quality of your windows or your doors. It is what happens between the first question and the production sheet, where a catalogue falls short (3D configurator vs PDF catalogue).
Replace the example values with your own and you will see what clarifying orders and remaking pieces costs you today.
| Figure | Example | How it is calculated |
|---|---|---|
| A · Orders per month coming in from your network | 80 | The whole network |
| B · Time to clarify and type in each order | 45 min | Calls and typing |
| C · Pieces made twice per year | 6 | Handing, size or colour noted wrongly |
| D · Cost of making, delivering and fitting again | €600 | Material, transport and crew |
| Hours per year clarifying and typing in orders | 720 h | A × B × 12 months |
| Cost per year of repeated pieces | €3,600 | C × D |
And what the sum leaves out: the quotes that arrive late and go to someone else, and the extras nobody showed.
With a 3D door and window configurator, your network or the customer choose dimensions, opening, finishes and extras while looking at the piece, with an indicative price and an order sheet. The same five stops:
The customer sees their piece with its dimensions and an indicative price.
Configures on the tablet: handing, finish and extras chosen while looking at the piece.
Receives the order sheet with references and quantities, with no calls.
Makes what the customer saw in 3D and took away as a PDF.
The piece that was configured arrives; in a development, with its label per home.
To get started: what a 3D configurator is and product augmented reality.
Each with its own page and an open demo, with no registration, with example products and prices.
PVC, aluminium or timber-aluminium, six openings, six glass types, handing, colour and roller blind.
Sectional, roller, high-speed or sliding, with a vehicle to scale, insulation and motor.
For windows, doors, monoblock or sliding, with units per development, a label per home and lead time.
Standard, security or armoured, with design, handing, lock, handle, side panel and transom.
Five slat types, box, motor, sun and wind sensors and insect screen.
Sliding, swing or pedestrian, with design, top finish, pillars, colour and automation.
Walls, floor, light ceiling, doors, control panel and accessibility.
Do you make interior doors? They have their own 3D interior door configurator.
What the demo base already does and what gets developed to order in your project.
The work focuses on loading what is yours. Before starting, we put in writing what is included and what is not.
Series, openings, designs, slats, colours, glass types and extras you really make.
Minimum and maximum sizes, weight per sash and combinations that do not leave the factory.
Prices, discounts, areas and who receives each enquiry.
On your website and on your distributors' websites, with training for the sales team.
We start from a base that already works: you do not pay for development from scratch.
Developments start from €6,500 for a visual configurator of one product family; most projects for manufacturers fall between €14,500 and €35,000, depending on the catalogue, the rules and the integrations, plus maintenance from €190 a month.
More detail at the price of a 3D configurator.
A web tool in which the distributor, the installer or the customer choose dimensions, opening, finishes and extras while seeing the piece in 3D, with an indicative price calculated with your price list. At the end, a PDF for the customer and an order sheet for the factory come out. It opens in the browser, with nothing to install.
The demo has seven: windows, industrial and garage doors, subframes, entrance doors, roller blinds and insect screens, gates and lift cabins. Balcony doors, combined fixed panels or pleated insect screens are added in the custom development, with your rules and your price list.
The piece opens in 3D at the press of a button and the handing is chosen by looking at it, with the hinges in view: the window, seen from inside; the entrance door, from outside. The choice travels with the order; for the entrance door it is written in the PDF and on the factory order sheet.
Yes. Your rules are programmed in: minimum and maximum sizes per series and opening, weight per sash or colours that only exist in one series. What you do not make cannot be chosen, and anything outside the limits shows on screen before the order is sent.
An area can be set up where each distributor logs in with their own user, works with their discount and their margin and, if you wish, presents the piece under their brand. All orders reach the factory in the same format, and the enquiries from your website can be assigned by area.
To confirm the opening before manufacturing, usually yes: the configurator does not replace the final survey. What changes is that you no longer go out to measure just to give a price: whoever calls you has already chosen type, dimensions, finish and extras, and knows roughly what it will cost.
Yes. With a QR code it opens on the phone, without downloading any app, and is placed at full size on the wall, the façade or the loading bay with augmented reality.
Projects start from €6,500 for a visual configurator of one product family; most projects for manufacturers fall between €14,500 and €35,000, depending on catalogue, rules and integrations, plus maintenance from €190/month. Separately, per product, 3D modelling and finishes, from €30 to €120 per part or finish (or more). Details at the price of a 3D configurator.
All seven demos are open, with no registration, with example products and prices: configurador.grup3d.es/demo. On desktop, tablet and mobile.
With your range in front of us? We will show you in a 20-minute video call: your series, your rules and how the orders would reach you.
Would you rather talk it through? Call us on 662 061 421 or write to grup3d@grup3d.es.
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