Product configurators for made-to-order manufacturing
For products you make once the order is in: customers configure the real product in a browser, to the millimeter and within the limits you set. Your Grasshopper definition turns each configuration into production-ready geometry, drawings, and a price, automatically - no re-modeling by hand.
Customers serve themselves, your sales team quotes faster, and your workshop gets clean production files.
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The problem
For made-to-order products, much of the cost comes before the workshop. Sales goes back and forth to pin down what the customer wants; a specialist re-models each order; someone transcribes the spec into production files, and any slip between the order and the workshop is a remake. It works, but it doesn’t scale, and it caps how much you can personalize.
How it works
They change dimensions, materials, and options in a live 3D (or AR) view - within the limits you set, so every configuration is buildable.
Your Grasshopper definition generates the exact geometry for that configuration in the cloud, accurate to the millimeter.
Price is calculated by the same definition, from size, volume, materials, or whatever logic you choose.
Every confirmed order brings its own drawings, cut and CNC files, and data - ready for the workshop or your ERP, with nothing re-keyed.
How this is different
Many 3D configurators switch between models built in advance, one for each variant. A Grasshopper definition computes each order from the actual parameters, so you can offer real dimensional freedom within the limits you set.
The definition runs the same logic every time, so the geometry that reaches production is right by construction.
With ShapeDiver you build and update the configurator yourself, and you own the Grasshopper definition - take it in-house or elsewhere whenever you want. Help is available if you want it; it’s never required.
The same platform covers the whole spectrum, so you’re not boxed in as your products grow:
Configurators that swap pre-built models stop at the first level; ShapeDiver runs the same definition across all three.
What comes out
Every configuration can produce the files your process needs, plus the price. Planen Planen’s configurator, for example, turns each trailer tarp into a dimensioned flat pattern and a cutting layout for its CNC cutters. On checkout, that output can attach to the order and flow into your ERP or order system through our APIs and SDKs, so there’s no manual step between the sale and the workshop.
Proof
Italy / JewelryCut production time by 50%, and up to 97% in some cases, while managing about 200 products across 15 families and 17 stores.
“ShapeDiver is able to show customers what they can’t visualize or imagine on their own.”
Lodovico Bruno, Senior Product Designer
United Kingdom / Industrial ATEX enclosures
A configurator that turns website traffic into spec-complete, verified leads, with same-day quotes and laser-ready production files from a single Grasshopper model.
“We’re the first ones to offer 3D files.”
Alex Pawle, CEO
Brazil / Furniture
“The first personalized furniture brand in Brazil,” letting customers design unique, assemblable pieces online, with production files generated for each order.
Germany / Timber construction
A configurator for designing custom log and solid-wood houses and garden structures.
US / Bridal jewelry
A heritage house (since 1837) offering configurable ring collections in 3D.
“The future of jewelry is personalization.”
Kelly Jacobson, Jewelry Creative Director
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Ring builders, furniture and stair configurators, shed and boat builders, and more. Each tile links out to a real, live configurator or its case study.
Ring builder
Live configurator by Nove25
Furniture configurator
Live configurator by Kastell
House configurator
Live configurator by Cake Houses
Stair configurator
Live configurator by EeStairs
Façade panel configurator
Live configurator by Zahner
Shed builder
Live configurator by Summerwood
Enclosure configurator
Live configurator by indEx Enclosures
Boat builder
Live configurator by Goldfish Boat
Why 3D configuration is worth it
These are other companies’ published results - useful as a benchmark for what interactive 3D and made-to-order configuration tend to do, not our own figures:
94%
higher conversion rate for products with 3D/AR content than those without.
Shopify44% / 65%
Shoppers who viewed a product in 3D were 44% more likely to add it to cart; in AR, 65% more likely to buy.
Shopify / Rebecca Minkoff+458%
One brand grew average order value +458% (DE), +232% (CH), +84% (UK) after adding AR and 3D configuration.
Shopify / Oakywood80%
of furniture shoppers said 3D models increased their confidence to buy - 90% among those who used a 3D planner.
3D Cloud, 2025Ownership & trust
Your Grasshopper definition runs on our servers and is never exposed to the people using the configurator, so your product logic and pricing rules stay private. Everything runs on SOC 2® Type II audited infrastructure, with cloud regions in the EU, the US, and Asia. And because you own the definition, you’re never locked into us to change or move your configurator.
Security & Trust
Who it's for
ShapeDiver isn’t the right configurator for every product. It earns its place when each order needs its own geometry and its own production files.
A good fit
Probably simpler elsewhere
Our customers make jewelry, furniture and cabinetry, timber homes and garden structures, staircases and railings, façade and acoustic panels, outdoor storage, industrial covers and enclosures, lighting, and boats - and sell direct, through dealers, or on Shopify and WooCommerce.
Getting started
Self-serve
Start a free trial, upload your definition, and build your configurator yourself.
E-commerce
Connect a configurator to your store with our plug-ins, so orders arrive with their production files attached.
With our team
Our team, or a partner, can build or optimize the configurator - and you keep the definition.
Whichever route you take, you own the Grasshopper definition and can take it further yourself at any time.
FAQ
Most configurators assemble predefined options. ShapeDiver runs your actual Grasshopper definition, so it can produce unique, dimensionally precise geometry - and the manufacturing files to match. If your product doesn’t need that, a simpler configurator may serve you better: see who it’s for.
Not a full one. CPQ (configure, price, quote) suites add quote approvals, discount rules, and CRM workflows. ShapeDiver covers configure and price with real geometry, and adds the production files. You can use it on its own, or pass each configuration, its price, and its files to your CPQ, CRM, or ERP through our APIs.
Yes, that’s where it fits best. For configure-to-order products, the definition keeps every configuration within what you can build. For engineer-to-order products, it does the repeatable part of the engineering for each order (geometry, drawings, bill of materials), so your engineers spend their time on the cases that need them.
A product customizer adds a name, a text, or a photo to a fixed product. A configurator changes the product itself: its dimensions, parts, and price. ShapeDiver connects to Shopify too, so customers configure in your store and each order arrives with its production files.
No. Each configuration generates its own production files automatically, from the same definition the customer used.
Yes - your definition calculates the price from whatever drives your cost: size, volume, material, or number of parts.
Yes - plug-ins for Shopify and WooCommerce, or embed it in any site, with output and orders flowing to your systems via API.
Someone needs to build the definition and update it when the product changes. That can be your own team, our Professional Services team, or a studio from our partners. The platform is self-service, so help is optional, and you own the definition whichever route you take.
Yes. You own the Grasshopper definition and can move or extend it whenever you like.
Product configurators
Start a free trial and build a configurator from a definition you already have - or talk to us about selling made-to-order at scale.
