3D Bits - 3D Product Configurator for Shopify
Your shopper cannot pick up your product, turn it over, or ask what the oak version looks like next to the walnut one. 3D Bits gives them the next best thing. They spin the product, change the material, drag the width to the size they actually need, and watch it update in front of them. When they add it to the cart, they are charged for exactly the thing they built.
What it does on your product page
A shopper lands on the product, sees the real object in 3D rather than a photograph, and starts making it theirs. Every choice you offer - a finish, a size, a piece of engraved text, an uploaded logo - changes what they are looking at and what they will pay, immediately and in front of them. There is no back-and-forth by email to agree a specification, and no gap between what they pictured and what arrives.
When they check out, Shopify charges the configured price and the order carries the full specification. You are not reading a free-text note and guessing.
You build it in Composer, without writing code
Composer is the visual editor inside the app. Upload your 3D model, arrange the scene - camera, lighting, background - and design the panel of options your shoppers will use: dropdowns, colour swatches, sliders, text fields for personalisation, image uploads. You decide what each choice does to the model and what it adds to the price. Press Play at any point to use the configurator exactly as a shopper will.
- Models - glTF, GLB and 3D Gaussian Splatting scans, with variants for swapping meshes, materials, colours and textures.
- Options - the controls a shopper sees, grouped into the layout you want, with rules that show, hide or restrict choices depending on what has already been picked.
- Pricing - a starting price, an amount per option, and formulas over sliders for anything sold by size, length or area. The total updates live.
- Scene extras - dimension lines, points of interest, animations, camera focal points and downloadable PDF reports for the shopper and for the order.
Pricing that follows the configuration
Most configurator apps show a 3D model and leave pricing to you. 3D Bits computes the price from the configuration itself and hands Shopify the number to charge. On the Pro plan you can attach products from your own catalogue to particular choices, and build a parts list behind the configuration, so every order arrives with the bill of materials your workshop actually needs.
Shopify keeps doing what Shopify does. Shipping, discounts, payment and refunds are unchanged, and we never touch your money. 3D Bits decides what the configured product costs; Shopify collects it.
It fits the store you already have
3D Bits does not ask you to rebuild your product pages. Turn on the app embed once in your theme, and every product you publish from the app shows its configurator automatically - no theme editing per product and nothing to paste into templates.
If Shopify variants already describe your product well, keep them; the configurator follows them and shows the right model when someone picks a colour or a size. If you run a product options app you are happy with, keep that too and leave configurator pricing switched off for those products. You can mix both approaches across your catalogue, product by product.
When the shape itself is calculated
Prepared models cover most catalogues. Some products are genuinely parametric - the geometry is computed from the dimensions rather than swapped between variants. On the Standard and Pro plans you can drive the scene with scripts built in our visual node editor or written in TypeScript, backed by the same OpenCascade, JSCAD and Manifold CAD kernels that power the rest of the platform. A table whose top, legs and joinery rebuild as the customer changes its length is one script, not two hundred exported files.