3D Printing & Manufacturing · San Jose, CA
A 3D Viewable Part Preview and Instant Quoting for an Additive Manufacturing Shop in San Jose, CA
Additiv3 was falling behind the competition. They wanted a completely decked-out 3D viewable preview so their clients would stop guessing and start knowing: the material, the print, and the price.
About the Client
Additiv3 is a 3D printing and manufacturing business located in San Jose, CA, running additive manufacturing for engineering teams, businesses, product developers, students and individuals, from prototypes through production runs.
The Challenge
In additive manufacturing the customer is usually buying something they cannot picture yet. They upload a file, wait for a human to look at it, wait again for a quote, and in the meantime they are guessing about the thing that matters most: whether the part will come out the way they need. Additiv3 was falling behind competitors who had removed that waiting from the process.
They were specific about the fix. They no longer wanted their clients guessing. They wanted them to know exactly what materials were used, how to interact with their print, and most importantly to know their quote instantly.
What I Built
A completely decked-out 3D viewable preview. A customer uploads a CAD file and sees their own part rendered in the browser, turning it over and inspecting it before a single machine is scheduled. The guessing step is gone because the part is right there on the screen.
Around the viewer, the two things they asked for. Material guidance that tells a customer exactly what a part will be made of and how to handle and interact with the finished print, and instant quoting: pick the process and the material and the price appears, same day, without an email thread.
Under the Hood: Upload, See It, Price It, In One Sitting
The whole flow is built to be completed by the customer without a human in the middle. The uploaded geometry drives both halves of the experience: the same file that renders in the 3D viewer is what the quoting logic reads to produce a price, so the part a customer is looking at and the part they are being quoted for are guaranteed to be the same object.
Material selection is treated as information rather than a dropdown. Each option carries what it is good for and how the finished print behaves, which is what the shop wanted: customers who know what they are ordering before they order it. The result is a quoting conversation that finishes in one sitting instead of over several days of back and forth.
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The Results
- Clients see their own part in a 3D viewable preview instead of guessing from a file name
- Material information tells a customer exactly what the part is made of and how to interact with it
- Quotes are returned instantly in the browser rather than after a round of emails
- A shop that was falling behind the competition now has the self-serve experience its market expects
Losing jobs while a quote sits in an inbox?
I build quoting and preview tools that let a customer finish the job themselves.