Size and footprint
Length, width and eaves height, with the model rebuilding as the numbers change and the price following.
Garage and carport configurator
A 3D garage configurator for garages and carports, priced as they build
Give buyers a configurator that covers dimensions, cladding, doors and roof, and returns a real figure before anyone picks up the phone.
No credit card required
What buyers can configure
Roof style and pitch
Apex, pent or flat, with the pitch and covering material shown as it will actually be built.
Doors and access
Sectional, roller or up-and-over doors, personnel doors, and where each one sits on the building.
Cladding and colour
Timber, steel or composite cladding with the finish or colour applied to the model in real time.
Windows and extras
Windows, guttering, insulation and storage additions priced as options rather than buried in a quote.
Instant pricing
Every selection feeds the price, so the customer sees what their configuration costs while they are still designing it.
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Sell a building nobody has photographed yet
Garage and carport ranges are combinatorial. Between sizes, roof styles, cladding, door types and colours, there are more variants than any photographer could ever shoot, which is why most sites show a handful of examples and a contact form. A 3D configurator inverts that. Instead of picking the nearest photo and hoping, the customer builds the exact building they want and sees it from any angle.
Fewer wasted quotes for your sales team
The cost of a garage enquiry is the back-and-forth: confirming sizes, checking that a door fits the chosen wall, re-pricing after every change. When the customer resolves that themselves, the enquiry that reaches your team is already specified and already priced. Conditional logic makes sure it is also buildable — options that do not apply to a chosen size or roof type simply never appear.
Draft a garage configurator with AI
Describe the building, for example “a single garage with timber or steel cladding, a sectional or roller door and an apex or flat roof”, and Generate with AI plans a first draft around your model, including the show and hide rules between those choices. You approve the base price and add the size-based formula, and it does not create the 3D model. The AI assistant can then check for doors and roofs with no price.
How to build a 3D garage configurator
The same flow whether you sell one carport or a full range of steel buildings.
Upload your garage model
Import the building as GLB, GLTF, FBX, OBJ, STL or DAE and organise the parts you want to control separately — walls, roof, doors, cladding.
Build the option blocks
Create the controls buyers will use: dimension inputs for length, width and height, swatches for cladding and colour, dropdowns for roof style and door type.
Add conditional logic
Tie options to the building: a roller door that is not offered below a certain width, cladding restricted by frame type, guttering that only applies to an apex roof. Anything you do not manufacture never becomes selectable.
Price it and collect the enquiry
Price the shell from its footprint, then add doors, windows, insulation and guttering as priced options. A formula driven by length × width handles custom sizes without a manual recalculation.
Embed it on your site
Publish and drop the iframe onto your garages page. One configurator per range, with embed domains restricted to your own site, keeps the setup simple.
Example: how a garage configurator can be set up
One way to set up a garage and carport range.
| What the customer chooses | How it is built | Rule or price example |
|---|---|---|
| Footprint | Number Input for length, width and eaves height | A formula prices the shell from length × width |
| Door type | Dropdown Select for sectional, roller or up-and-over | Roller doors are hidden below a set width |
| Roof | Thumbnail Selector for apex, pent or flat | Guttering only appears on an apex roof |
| Cladding | Select Material for timber, steel or composite | A Price Group charges by the grade chosen |
| Extras | Toggle Switch for insulation and a personnel door | Each adds its own price |
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Case study: an outdoor structure priced as it is designed
A glass roof terrace rather than a garage, but the same need: an outdoor structure priced from the company’s own ERP while the customer designs it.
Thermogreen AG
Thermogreen: a glass roof terrace configurator priced from Mendix
Thermogreen AG needed a configurator that pulled real-time pricing from their Mendix ERP while the customer designed a glass roof terrace — plus a second interface for sales staff quoting on site.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Dimension inputs are one of the option block types, so a buyer can enter length, width and height directly and watch the model and the price update as they do.
That is what conditional logic is for. Rules show, hide or restrict options based on earlier choices, so combinations you do not manufacture never become selectable.
It gives whatever your rules calculate. Pricing supports base prices, price tables and formulas, so a price that depends on square metres, door count or cladding grade can be modelled properly.
A quote form captures the full configuration along with the customer details, and submissions appear under Requests in your dashboard.
You need a 3D model of the building. Everything after that — options, rules, pricing, publishing — is done visually in the editor without code.
Yes. Publishing produces a share link and an iframe snippet that works on any site or CMS, and you can restrict which domains are allowed to embed it.
Other outdoor buildings
Sheds, halls, roofs and carports share the same dimension-driven pricing and rule logic. If you sell more than one of them, the building configurator page covers the whole range.
Sheds and garden rooms
Smaller buildings with the same size, cladding and door choices.
From the blog
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