Fanbedarf.de: a 3D jacket configurator for fan club track tops

Fanbedarf.de is a textile workshop and showroom in Nuremberg-Zerzabelshof, Germany, making fan merchandise and club wear for fan clubs, sports clubs, brands and companies across the country. Embroidery, printing, laser engraving and tailoring sit under one roof, and the team describes itself as part of the fan scene. One of its products is the track top: a training jacket tailored to order in a fan club’s colours, with the club’s logo embroidered on the chest and its name across the back.

In August 2026, Fanbedarf.de added a 3D jacket configurator to fanbedarf.de, built in Simplio3D. Fan clubs pick one of four Track Top models, colour every part of it in fabric colours, see the jacket in 3D and send the design as a non-binding request. The setup was straightforward and quick: upload the 3D models, assign the fabric colours, add a contact form and embed the result on a WordPress page.

The solution: a 3D jacket configurator with four Track Top models

The configurator has its own page on fanbedarf.de, Trainingsjacke individuell gestalten (design your own training jacket), and the homepage promotes it with a Jetzt gestalten (design now) button. It is in German. On the right of the 3D view, Track Top Variante shows the four models as pictures, Top 1 to Top 4, and picking one swaps the jacket on screen. Behind the jacket, the background is patterned with the Fanbedarf.de logo.

Below the models come the colour rows for that model, one per part of the jacket: Hauptfarbe (main colour), Streifen-Farbe (stripes), Reißverschluss-Farbe (zip) and Bündchen-Farbe (ribbing) on every model, plus the panel that sets each model apart. The jacket turns and zooms in 3D, close enough to see the stitching along the zip and the seams.

Fabric colours for every part of the jacket

Every colour row offers the same 17 fabric colours: white, beige, black, carbon, light grey, fire red, red, burgundy, royal blue, navy, yellow, dark yellow, green, dark green, brown, violet and pink. The 3D jacket changes as soon as a swatch is picked. For a club colour outside that range, a colour wheel at the end of each row opens a picker that takes any colour, down to its hex code.

The rows follow the model. Conditional logic shows only the parts the chosen model has, so a club never colours a panel its jacket does not have:

• Top 1: main colour, stripes, zip and ribbing;
• Top 2: the same four, plus a shoulder colour (Schulter-Farbe);
• Top 3: the same four, plus a shoulder and chest colour (Schulter/Brust-Farbe);
• Top 4: the same four, plus a sleeve colour (Ärmel-Farbe).

A summary of the finished jacket

A toolbar beside the 3D view holds the viewing tools: reset the camera, start over, full screen, the configuration summary, a screenshot and a share link. The Configuration Summary lists the model and every colour by name, for example Top 2 in dark green with carbon stripes, green shoulders, light grey ribbing and a white zip, so a club can check the whole jacket in one place. The screenshot and the share link make it easy to show a design to the rest of the club.

A non-binding request instead of a checkout

The configurator shows no price and has no cart. A tailored jacket is priced by quantity and finishing, so the last step is Unverbindlich anfragen (ask without obligation). It opens a short form headed Deine Trainingsjacke, dein Design – jetzt anfragen! (your training jacket, your design: ask now). The form asks for a name and an email address, the quantity in one of four bands (15–25, 25–50, 50–100 or 100+) and the club’s wishes, such as appliqués and other details, and the visitor accepts the terms and the privacy policy. The request reaches Fanbedarf.de with the model and every colour.

The page around the configurator explains the rest. A jacket costs from €49.90 including VAT, with the embroidered chest logo and the back lettering included, and the minimum order is 15 jackets, or 10 for a smaller fan club by arrangement. The back lettering can be embroidered or sewn on as patchwork letters. Sublimation, chenille patches, contrast taping and, for larger orders, woven patches are available on request, and delivery takes three to five weeks from design approval.

Quick to set up: models, colours and a form

The Fanbedarf.de configurator uses a small part of what Simplio3D can do, which is why it was straightforward to put live. The setup came down to four things:

• Upload the 3D models. The four Track Top jackets went in as 3D models, each with the parts that take a colour of their own.
• Assign the fabric colours. The 17 fabric colours became a swatch row for every part of every model, with the colour picker for anything else, and rules show only the rows the chosen model has.
• Add the contact form. The request form asks for a name, an email address, a quantity band and wishes, and sends them with the configuration.
• Embed it. One iframe put the configurator on a WordPress page of fanbedarf.de, with no plugin and no shop integration, and a teaser on the homepage links to it.

There are no prices, AR or design canvases to set up, so there is little to maintain either. A new colour or another model is a change made in the Simplio3D dashboard, without touching the website. More on configuring garments: the 3D clothing configurator.

What a project like this would add today

None of this section is part of the Fanbedarf.de configurator described above, which runs on the earlier version of Simplio3D. For a club wear maker starting now:

• The club’s logo and lettering on the 3D jacket. Image Upload lets a customer add their own image, Text Input puts custom text on the model with a choice of fonts, and the Design Canvas places logos and artwork freely. A club could see its crest on the chest and its name across the back before sending the request, rather than sending them separately.
• Colour ranges added in bulk. The material library is shared across projects, and bulk-add by category turns a range of fabric colours into a swatch set without authoring each option by hand.
• Another garment from a description. A first configurator for another product, such as a windbreaker or shorts, can be generated from a written description, then finished by hand.
• Checking the rules. The AI assistant can audit option coverage and conditional logic, for instance that each of the four models shows all of its colour rows, and propose repairs where one is missing.
• Requests and an AI agent. An AI client such as Claude, connected to the workspace over MCP with a scoped connection, can read incoming quote requests and summarise them for the team. Anything an agent reads is sent to the user’s AI provider, including the customer details in a request, and changes to prices only ever arrive as pending changes that a person applies.