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title: "3D product configurators, built live on your own CAD — DH Studios"
url: "https://dhstudios.tv/3d/configurators"
rev: "036 · 26 Oct 2026"
signed: "DH Studios"
---

# 3D product configurators, built live on your own CAD — DH Studios

> SHEET 19 of 19 · REV 036 · 26 Oct 2026 · DRAWN DH · CHECKED — · SIGNED DH Studios

## current-page

- **path:** /3d/configurators
- **title:** 3D product configurators, built live on your own CAD — DH Studios
- **description:** 3D product configurators that run live in the browser on your product's own CAD. Sorinex and Vestaboard demos run on /3d. DH Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio.

## head

- **label:** Live 3D · product configurators · Cincinnati, Ohio
- **title:** 3D product configurators, built live on your own CAD.
- **plain:** A 3D product configurator lets a buyer pick the colorway, add the accessory and turn the product to any angle, live in the browser, before they order. DH Studios builds them on the same CAD the product is built from, rendered with React Three Fiber on Three.js. Not a video. The product, live.
- **promise:** One product first. Then the line.

## how-its-built

- **title:** From your CAD to a product the buyer can turn.
- **01 your cad:** Your own product files: the STEP, the FBX, or the GLB from a configurator you already run. What the buyer sees is the geometry the factory builds from.
- **02 a web file:** Decimated to what a screen can resolve, materials normalised, Draco-compressed. Hundreds of megabytes of CAD become a file under two megabytes.
- **03 the browser:** React Three Fiber renders it live, lit like a product shot, driven by what the buyer chooses. Nothing is pre-rendered.

## the-work (Sorinex's three pieces are all in build (owner, 26 Oct 2026))

- **title:** Two product makers. Both demos run on /3d.
- **sorinex:** Lexington, SC · strength equipment
- **sorinex 01:** A rack viewer on the real rack CAD, in build. Three Base Camp racks run on /3d today: Half Rack 1.8 MB, Single Rack 0.7 MB, Power Rack 1.4 MB.
- **sorinex 02:** A team-colorway customizer, in build: zone colorways, logos, and facility names on the nameplates.
- **sorinex 03:** An interactive rack configurator, in build: browse the line, attach accessories in 3D, and arrive at a buildable configuration.
- **sorinex demo:** https://dhstudios.tv/3d#sorinex
- **sorinex case:** https://dhstudios.tv/work/sorinex-live-3d
- **vestaboard:** Palo Alto, CA · split-flap displays
- **vestaboard 01:** A true-3D product studio in the browser: type a message on the real split-flap drum, orbit the board, and export path-traced stills and turntables — replacing per-angle renders.
- **vestaboard 02:** A browser split-flap simulator with every board transition, an embeddable board, a live composer, and video export for marketing.
- **vestaboard demo:** https://dhstudios.tv/3d#flapboard
- **vestaboard case:** https://dhstudios.tv/work/vestaboard-live-3d

## first-configurator

- **title:** What a first configurator needs.
- **01:** Your CAD: the product files the factory builds from.
- **02:** One product to start. The line comes after.
- **03:** The options that matter: the colorways, sizes and accessories a buyer actually chooses between, and what fits with what.
- **04:** The decision the 3D has to help a buyer make: configure, compare, or simply believe.
- **05:** Where it lives: the page it goes on, and the people who take the order.

## questions (Before you book)

- **What is a 3D product configurator?:** A page where a buyer builds the product they want, choosing colorway, size and accessories, and sees it live in 3D from any angle before ordering. Ours render in the browser from the product's own CAD.
- **What files do you work from?:** Your own product files: the STEP, the FBX, or the GLB from a configurator you already run. We don't re-model a likeness.
- **How fast does it load?:** Hundreds of megabytes of CAD become a file under two megabytes. The three Sorinex racks on /3d are 1.8 MB, 0.7 MB and 1.4 MB, Draco-compressed and lazy-loaded.
- **What is in build for Sorinex right now?:** Three pieces, all in build: a rack viewer on the real CAD, a team-colorway customizer, and an interactive rack configurator. You can orbit three of the racks on /3d today.
- **Where are you based?:** Cincinnati, Ohio. Our live 3D work so far is for Sorinex in Lexington, South Carolina, and Vestaboard in Palo Alto, California.

## demos

- Try the two live demos · https://dhstudios.tv/3d

## contact

- **book:** https://dhstudios.tv/start
- **email:** hello@dhstudios.tv

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