“Can you tell me something by Friday?” An awning for a fourth floor, 310 metres of railing, a site cabin for Monday, twelve benches for a square. Outdoors almost everything is made to measure and signed off by someone who was not there. With a 3D configurator, your customer or your network choose sizes, finishes and extras while looking at the product, with its price, and you receive the order sheet.
First week of April at a company that makes metal structures and solar protection. Waiting in the inbox: the survey of a 42-home development with railings, the photo of a balcony for an awning and a manager who wants to cover six parking spaces with solar panels. All three ask how much, when and how it will look, and all three need a sketch and a spreadsheet.
Midweek the changes arrive. The architect wants to see the penthouses with louvres instead of glass. The manager asks how many panels fit, while one workshop quotes the structure and another supplier the charger. Every version means redoing the calculation, and the extras (the wind sensor, the edge fixing, the crane lorry) are left out so the total does not scare anyone.
Whatever slips through shows up outdoors and with witnesses: one glass panel short on the third floor, an awning projection that does not cover the table, a module delivered to a plot with no slab. In season, every repeat visit takes the slot of an installation. Nobody did a bad job: the order went through too many hands and too many pieces of paper.
In the shop, on site, at the residents' meeting and at the council. Below, how it gets solved.
A scrap of canvas or the photo of another job look nothing like four metres of awning on a façade. The customer takes the doubt home and comes back another day, if they come back.
With the configuratorCanvas, glass, colour or cladding are tried on the whole product in 3D, with up to three versions side by side.
Crane lorry, unloading, installation, edge fixing. If they are included and the competitor leaves them out, you look expensive; if you forget them, your margin pays.
With the configuratorInstallation and extras go into the indicative price from the start and, for the modules, so do transport and unloading, with your price list.
Dozens of sections, twelve benches, four modules, in a spreadsheet only its author understands. The missing glass panel shows up on site, with the crane paid by the day.
With the configuratorMetres, units or modules go in, and the price and the order sheet are recalculated at the same time.
The penthouse railing, the accessible benches, the module slab. Line items are copied from another job and the detail shows up at review or, worse, on site.
With the configuratorA minimum-height warning on the railing, armrests with their price on the bench, and the slab and utility connections in writing in the module PDF.
Motor, sensor, LED light, charger, engraved crest: one more line that pushes up the total. Then comes the bent arm, or the customer who wanted it and was never shown it.
With the configuratorExtras are switched on with one click, appear in the 3D model with labels, and the price shows what they add.
The residents' meeting, the committee, the council session or purchasing receive a PDF with references and a photo of another job. The decision moves to the next meeting.
With the configuratorImage, PDF or QR code, and augmented reality to see it at full size on the terrace, the plot or the square.
The council engineer asks several manufacturers at once for a data sheet, units and price. Whoever answers first usually sets the specifications of the tender.
With the configuratorThe PDF with image, technical data, units and indicative price is downloaded the same day.
Every shop or installer quotes with their own version of the price list, and orders reach the factory in different formats.
With the configuratorAn area for each one with their margin and, if you wish, their brand, and the order sheet always the same.
Five stops with photos, visits and spreadsheets.
The photo of a balcony, a survey in PDF or an email from a council. You lose: days until the first figure.
Measuring and showing samples or photos of another job. You lose: half a day and kilometres.
Metres, parts and extras in a spreadsheet, and again with every change. You lose: hours.
Residents, committee, council session or purchasing decide without seeing it. You lose: weeks of the season.
The order is passed on by hand and the mistake shows up during installation. You lose: a second trip and the margin.
The problem is not what you make. It is what happens between the first question and the order sheet (3D configurator vs PDF catalogue).
With a 3D configurator for outdoor products, the same five stops change like this:
The customer sees their awning, their railing or their module with its dimensions and an indicative price.
You go to confirm what the customer has already chosen, not to show the catalogue.
Metres, units and extras are recalculated on their own: you check, you do not type.
The person who signs receives the image, the PDF and the compared versions.
An order sheet with references and quantities and, for the module, what the site has to prepare, in writing.
To get started: what a 3D configurator is and product augmented reality.
Each with its own page. Five have an open demo, with no registration, with example products and prices; the full pergola demo, with personal access per company.
Bioclimatic and retractable, lattices and louvres, with the factory's technical rules, a cutting list and an area for distributors. The demo is requested from its page.
Folding-arm, cassette, vertical or drop-arm: dimensions, canvas and technical fabric, valance, LED in the arms, motor and wind sensor. It extends and retracts in 3D.
Glass, stainless steel, slats, cables or fence: linear metres, height, glass, handrail, LED light and fixing, with a minimum-height warning.
Spaces, structure, roof (including solar), paving, gutter, storage room and electric car charger, with panels and indicative output.
Office, changing room, storage, sanitary or modular home: size, joined modules, cladding, roof, porch and air conditioning, with transport and unloading in the price.
Bench, litter bin, bike rack and planter: material, wood tone, colour, armrests, engraved crest and units for a square or a tender.
A terrace, balcony or porch closed in 3D with the panels opening, a fixed, movable or bioclimatic roof, an itemised quote and a PDF for the residents' association.
A plot checker with boundaries, 7 catalogue shells, gelcoat colours with their water, telescopic enclosures and the project PDF for the permit.
Do you make gates or plot gates? They have their own 3D gate configurator, in the doors and windows sector.
What the demo base already does and what gets prepared in your project.
We load what is yours, and before starting we put in writing what is included and what is not.
Types, sizes, materials, colours and extras you really make.
Maximum dimensions, post spacing, modules that join together, panel calculation.
Price per metre, unit or module, transport by area 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 and in how much a 3D product configurator costs.
A web tool in which your customer or your network choose the dimensions, finishes and extras of a pergola, an awning, a railing, a carport, a module or a bench while seeing it 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 six: pergolas, awnings, railings and fencing, canopies and carports, prefabricated modules and street furniture. Five have an open demo, with no registration, with example products and prices; the full pergola demo opens with personal access per company, requested from its page. Other outdoor products are developed to order.
Yes. In the demo, the awning, the railing, the carport and the bench add installation, and the prefabricated module adds transport and unloading. Extras come in with their price: wind sensor, edge fixing, charger, engraved crest. In your version it is calculated with your price list and your rules, for example by area or by number of modules.
Every configuration generates its factory order sheet with references and quantities. In the demo, 8 metres of glass railing at 1,000 mm come out with 7 laminated glass panels and 14 fixings on the order sheet, and 8 posts in the technical data; twelve benches with armrests come out with 24 armrests and 12 fixing kits. In your version, the count follows your modules and your references.
Yes. The railing warns when the height drops below 1,000 mm and reminds you of the minimum height for sections with a big drop; the prefabricated module states in writing that it needs a level slab and utility connections; in pergolas, the technical rules explain the limit and suggest the alternative in one click. Checking each project against regulations remains the job of the engineer who signs it off.
An area can be set up for each one, with their brand and their margin, and the contacts that come in through your website are assigned to the sales rep or the shop for their area. The factory always receives the order sheet in the same format.
To confirm before manufacturing, usually yes: the configurator does not replace the final survey or the technical study. What changes is that you no longer go out just to give a price: whoever calls you has already chosen and knows roughly what it will cost.
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 materials and finishes, from €30 to €120 per part or finish (or more). Lead time, between 3 and 16 weeks depending on scope; the specific date goes in the proposal. Details at the price of a 3D configurator.
Five open demos, with no registration, with example products and prices, in the cards above. The full pergola demo opens with personal access per company, requested from its page.
With your range in front of us? We will show you in a 20-minute video call: your products, your price list 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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