FAQ

Working with i3D offers numerous benefits, including:

• • Significant time savings: Reduce planning work by up to 90% and project handling times by up to 60%.
  • Error reduction: Minimize human errors in sales, design, and production by up to 97%.
  • Increased efficiency: Streamline your order-delivery process and automate documentation.
  • Cost savings: Reduce material waste (e.g., by 33% with precise calculations and optimization) and lower reclamation rates (e.g., by 27%).
  • Improved sales: Enhance sales volume and speed (e.g., by 30%) with 3D visualizations and faster quoting.
  • Better collaboration: Easily share designs and information with clients and internal teams.
  • Centralized control: Manage all processes from 3D modelling to production documents in one place.

The process is designed to be intuitive:

1. 1. Draw: Easily draw or define the product’s geometry.
   2. Select options: Choose materials, colors, dimensions, and other specific features based on predefined rules and your product catalogue.
   3. Visualize in 3D: Instantly see the configured product in a real-time 3D model.
   4. Real-time Pricing: As you design, the price is calculated automatically, providing a clear breakdown.
   5. Obtain documents: Once the design is complete, you can download all relevant sales and production documents.

 i3D offers several configurator packages tailored to different needs:

• • Generic/Starter: For those wanting to experiment with generic products, 3D visualization, and quotation features.
  • Sales Configurator: Designed to boost sales through 3D visualization, fast quoting, and order management for customized products.
  • Product/Production Configurator (Manufacture): Includes all Sales Configurator features plus comprehensive tools for manufacturing, such as BOM generation, cut lists, saw optimization, DXF/STEP files, CNC support, and detailed production documentation.
  • Enterprise: A completely personalized configurator tailored to your specific needs, overall look, and functionality.

• Quick product design with an easy-to-use drawing feature.
• Automatic pricing and real-time price breakdown.
• Fast quotation generation.
• Real-time 3D modelling for clear product visualization.
• Easy sharing for improved collaboration with clients.

• Fast and accurate design with user-friendly drawing tools.
• Real-time pricing and cost breakdown.
• Automated Bill of Materials (BOM), quantity list, and cut-off list generation.
• Saw optimization for material waste reduction.
• Automatic DXF and STEP file creation for production.
• CNC and glass workpiece configuration.
• Real-time 3D models and clear production documentation.

Yes, absolutely. The i3D Configurator is designed to be tailored to your company’s specific needs and product lines, whether you manufacture balustrades, balconies, pergolas, stairs, or other complex items. We work with you to define the rules, options, and components for your products.

Depending on the chosen configurator type, it can generate:

• • Sales documents: Quotations, price breakdowns, content documents.
  • Production documents: Bill of Materials (BOM), quantity lists, cut-off lists, sawing instructions, production documents, CAD files (DXF/DWG), 3D models (STEP), glass ordering lists, and work instructions including saw optimization.

 Yes. The i3D Configurator is designed to make your quotation process simple and fast. Prices are calculated in real-time as you design, and professional quotations can be generated in seconds. This addresses common challenges like confusing and slow quoting.

The i3D Configurator allows you to visualize your products in 3D. You can instantly customize key elements and show your clients a fully visualized concept in just minutes, helping them understand exactly what they are buying and improving sales continuity.

Yes. The Product/Production Configurator automates the generation of precise documentation for your manufacturing process, including cut lists, BOMs, CAD files, and saw optimization, significantly reducing errors and repetitive work.

Yes, with our Integration Add-on, we can connect the i3D Configurator to a wide range of external systems. We utilize our API to integrate with CRM systems, internal sales tools, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, and more. This ensures a smoother data flow across your business operations. Please contact us to discuss your specific integration needs.

Yes, our Product Structure Consulting service is specifically designed to address these challenges. We can help you organize your BOMs, manage product variations effectively, and create a clear product structure that reduces errors and improves efficiency. The Product/Production Configurator also directly addresses this by automating BOM generation.

Our Product Development Consulting can analyze your current processes, identify bottlenecks, and help you implement more efficient and innovative methodologies. We focus on optimizing the entire lifecycle from idea to market.

We provide support to ensure you can effectively use the i3D Configurator. The specifics of support can vary based on your chosen package. For Manufacture and Enterprise clients, this can include support for CNC machining.

Yes, one of the core strengths of the i3D Configurator is its ability to incorporate pre-given rules, settings, and combinations for your products. This ensures that only valid configurations can be designed, minimizing errors.

We offer different pricing tiers for the i3D Configurator:

• • Generic/Starter: €99 per month
  • Sales: €299 per month (includes 1 user, company environment, customized products)
  • Manufacture: €499 per month (includes Sales package features plus production-specific tools)
  • Enterprise: Custom pricing based on your specific needs. Please contact us for a detailed discussion and quote for the Enterprise solution or add-ons.
  • Implementation: It’s important to note that for the Sales, Manufacture, and Enterprise plans, customizing the configurator with your own specific products will involve an implementation cost. This is because setting up your unique products, rules, and data requires dedicated work. The implementation cost depends on the number of products you want to add and their complexity. We offer convenient monthly payment options for the implementation (without the need for pre-payments), or you can choose to pay the implementation cost at once.The Integration Add-on, Dealer Add-on, and B2C Add-on are also priced separately. Please contact us for a detailed discussion and a tailored quote that includes any product implementation and desired add-ons.
  • Additional Users: If you need more users for your company environment (internal users) or for your resellers (dealer network, which is part of the Dealer Add-on), these can be purchased. Additional user packages are typically structured based on the number of users (e.g. 1-10, 11-20, 21-50, 50+ users). The pricing for these additional user packages is determined on a case-by-case basis.

i3D stands out due to our:

• • Deep industry knowledge: We have strong substantive knowledge of the construction and manufacturing industries and their products.
  • Proven results: Our clients have seen significant improvements in efficiency, error reduction, sales, and cost savings (as highlighted by our client quotes and statistics like -90% planning work, -27% reclamations, +30% sales volume).
  • Comprehensive solution: We combine powerful configurator software with expert consulting to address your needs holistically.
  • Focus on automation: We automate processes from sales to production, freeing up your time and resources.
  • User-friendly interface: Our software is built for ease of use, allowing for quick and accurate product configuration.