Advanced pricing: markup and margin, quantity tiers, discounts, charges, shipping and tax
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Pro and Enterprise configurators can now produce a complete quote: price from your own cost, lower prices for bigger quantities, discounts, setup and labor charges, shipping options and VAT or sales tax — calculated in a fixed, visible order and shown to shoppers as an itemized price that says when something is still an estimate.
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Six new pricing blocks in Pricing mode → Advanced pricing: Markup / Margin, Tier Pricing (volume, graduated, package), Discount, Charge (setup, labor, installation, surcharge), Freight (flat, by destination, by weight, pickup, quoted separately) and Tax (VAT, sales tax, GST at the rates you enter, with exemptions only for tax IDs you verified).
How the price is built: a card at the top of Pricing mode shows the steps — item prices, × quantity, discounts, charges, shipping, tax — with your blocks in each, lets you turn on an order quantity the shopper chooses, and lists anything that needs attention.
Every block shows a live example of what customers pay, including at 1 and 10 units, so a setup fee is never accidentally charged per unit.
Shoppers see each discount, charge, shipping and tax line, choose a delivery option, and can enter a tax ID when you allow it. A missing quantity, delivery choice or tax rate shows as pending — never as a silent zero.
The AI Assistant and AI connections can propose these blocks for you; every pricing change still waits for your approval.
New guide: Advanced Pricing (CPQ).
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Quote requests are re-priced on the server, so the totals in your emails and PDFs can be trusted; their pricing now lists every line.
Shopify, WooCommerce and the WordPress plugin receive the price after discounts plus charges and add their own tax and shipping at checkout — nothing is charged twice.
The Simplio3D app for Shopify's storefront blocks and the WordPress plugin (2.2.0) show the same itemized price as your Share link: the estimate note, the delivery options and Price details. An older WordPress plugin cannot show these steps, so Simplio3D does not confirm such a project's price for its WooCommerce cart until the plugin is updated.
Prices are calculated with exact decimal arithmetic and rounded per line to your currency's decimal places, so every line adds up to the total.
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Your costs, markup and margin never leave your account: shoppers, embeds and the public Share link receive only the resulting prices. Tax IDs you verify are kept private and checked on the server.
October 7, 2026
Names, numbers, logos, pattern colours and designs on Shopify storefronts and custom UIs
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Simplio3D's storefront 3D renderer — the one behind the Simplio3D app for Shopify's storefront blocks, also available to developers as @simplio3d/viewer — now paints pattern colours, typed names and numbers, uploaded images and Design Canvas designs onto the model, using exactly the same code as your Share link. The Simplio3D app for Shopify was updated the same day with the matching controls.
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Shopify: the Configurator options block offers the same options as your Share link — a name or number to type, an image to upload, a pattern's colours and the Design Canvas editor — and paints them on the 3D model as the shopper works. Your editor rules still apply: allowed characters, maximum length, accepted file types and size, and which adjustments shoppers may make. What they chose goes on the cart line and the order.
If something can't be painted — usually a text or upload target pointing at a part the 3D model no longer has — the theme editor's browser console names the option and the part, and the rest of the configurator keeps working.
Developers building their own storefront UI with @simplio3d/viewer get the same painting and a diagnostic event (see the SDK changelog, 3.16).
Guides updated: Shopify (What the storefront blocks show) and the Headless Integration Walkthrough.
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Share link and Preview: when a shopper clears a text field, the configuration summary in their request (and its emails and PDF) no longer lists the field's default text — it lists nothing, matching the model.
October 6, 2026
A new design for every email, and a real preview of your project emails
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Every email Simplio3D sends now uses one clean design that reads well on phones and in the major email apps — account confirmations, password resets, team invitations, trial reminders, and the emails your projects send to you and your customers. In Project Settings → Email you can now preview your project emails exactly as they are sent.
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Project Settings → Email → Preview email: see the request notification, customer confirmation, saved-configuration and test emails as they are sent, with your current (even unsaved) colours, logo and footer, at desktop and phone width.
Your project emails carry your brand: your accent colour on the top line, buttons and links (darkened automatically when needed so text stays readable), an optional gradient, your logo and your footer text.
Simplio3D's own emails come in Light and Dark versions, with one clear button, an information panel where it helps, and Simplio3D's company details in the footer.
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Email logos are now hosted for email: upload a PNG or JPEG (up to 2 MB) and it shows in every email app. Logos uploaded before today were stored inside the project settings, which email apps don't show — the preview tells you so; remove the logo and upload it again.
Long configuration summaries and many form fields stay readable and well under Gmail's size limit, and multi-line answers keep their line breaks.
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The trial reminder sent with one day to go now says "1 day left" instead of "1 days left".
October 6, 2026
Browse Online: import free 3D models from Poly Haven, Sketchfab and the Smithsonian
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Assets → 3D Models has a new Browse Online button. Search free 3D models from Poly Haven, Sketchfab and the Smithsonian in one place, check each model's license, and import the one you want straight into your assets — no downloading and re-uploading. Every import is checked and scored for how well it will work in a configurator.
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One search across three libraries, with filters for source, category, license, format and polygon count. If one library is unavailable, the others still show their results.
A details view for every model: preview, creator, license in plain words, formats, polygon count, file size and a link to the original page.
Import in one click: the model is downloaded, converted to GLB when needed, checked like an upload and saved as a normal 3D asset. Imports run in the background with progress, and importing the same model twice opens the one you already have.
Configurator Readiness: a score and a checklist (separate parts, part names, materials, UVs, size, scale, pivot, triangles, file size) after every import, shown in the asset preview.
Sketchfab imports use your own free Sketchfab account, connected once from the browser.
A new Add 3D menu brings Upload 3D, Browse Online and Sample models together.
New guide: Importing Free 3D Models from Online Libraries in the Tutorials.
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Imported models count toward your plan's 3D model limit like uploads, and team Viewers can browse but not import.
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Only models whose license allows commercial use can be imported. CC0 and CC BY import in one click; CC BY-SA and CC BY-ND need you to accept the terms first; NonCommercial, Editorial and store licenses are view only.
The license, creator, source and a ready-made credit line are saved with every imported model and written into the model file; the asset preview has a Copy credit button.
Files are only ever downloaded by Simplio3D's servers, from the library itself, with size and time limits. Your Sketchfab connection is stored encrypted and never reaches the browser.
October 5, 2026
Share links show your model with its materials from the first frame
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The loading screen on your Share links, embeds and in Preview now stays up until the model is shown with its starting materials. Shoppers no longer see a plain grey model for a moment while materials load — most noticeable on projects that use Select Material blocks in From Category mode.
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Select Material blocks in From Category mode: the model no longer appears grey while the category's materials load on a Share link, and the block shows placeholder swatches instead of a separate "Loading materials…" message.
Share links and embeds with a transparent background no longer show the untextured model behind the loading animation.
On a very slow connection the loading screen waits at most 20 seconds for materials; after that the model appears and the remaining materials follow as they arrive.
October 5, 2026
Download your 3D models, textures and graphics
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Every asset in Dashboard → Assets can now be downloaded — on every plan, including the free trial, and by every member of a team workspace. Download one file named after the asset, the original OBJ, FBX or ZIP you uploaded, or select several assets and download them together as a .zip.
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Download from the asset card or list row, from the ⋯ menu, or from the preview window. The browser saves the file straight to disk under the asset's name, e.g. "Lounge Chair.glb".
Models uploaded as OBJ, FBX, STL, DAE, GLTF or ZIP offer two files: the GLB your configurators use, or the original you uploaded.
Select mode: tick assets (or Select all for the current filter) and click Download .zip — with progress, Cancel, numbered duplicate names, and a report inside the .zip for any file that could not be added. Up to 100 files and 500 MB per .zip.
New guide: Downloading Your Assets in the Tutorials.
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Asset actions work on phones and tablets: every card and row has a ⋯ menu with Preview, Download, Rename and Delete (and Edit color channels for SVG graphics). Before, the card buttons only appeared on mouse hover, so touch screens could not reach them.
The texture and graphic preview window opens at its full width on larger screens instead of a narrow column, and its picture no longer runs past the bottom edge.
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Downloading an asset through the API no longer fails for file names with accented or non-Latin letters (for example "Ștefan.glb").
October 2, 2026
Gemstones that sparkle: refraction, fire and jewelry lighting
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Materials can now let light pass through. A faceted stone bends the light, reflects it inside and splits it into colours, so diamonds, sapphires and emeralds look real in the editor, in Preview and on your Share links and embeds. For jewellery there are 15 gemstone presets, nine precious metals, ready-made ring and stone models, and a choice of lighting environments — including a jewelry studio and your own HDR panorama.
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Gemstone / Transmission in the Material Editor (Advanced tab, Transparent materials): 15 gem presets — Diamond, Blue Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald, Amethyst, Cubic Zirconia, Moissanite, Aquamarine, Blue Topaz, Morganite, Peridot, Citrine, Tanzanite, Garnet and Pink Sapphire — with refractive index up to 2.5, fire, body colour and sparkle, previewed live on a cut stone.
Glass rendering for thin-walled objects: bottles, lenses and panes bend what is behind them.
Material Library: a Gemstones category, and nine jewellery metals in Metal — Platinum 950, Satin Platinum, 18K White Gold (Rhodium), Palladium, 22K and 14K Yellow Gold, Satin Yellow Gold, Fine Silver and Black Rhodium.
3D Model Library: a Jewelry category with a solitaire ring and round brilliant, oval, princess and emerald cut stones, ready for gemstone materials.
Project Settings → Lighting → Environment & Reflections: Studio (the default every project already uses), Jewelry studio, Softbox, Daylight or your own HDR panorama (.hdr or .exr, converted in your browser), with rotation.
Gems & Glass rendering quality: Automatic gives each device the best quality it can keep smooth — High on computers, Standard on phones — and steps down when frames get slow.
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Wearable try-on lights the product with the project's lighting environment when you have chosen one, so gold, platinum and silver look polished instead of dark.
The editor warns when a gemstone or glass material is applied to a part with holes or inward-facing faces, which would make the stone look hollow.
Every gemstone material keeps a transparent look for AR, older embedded viewers and computers without a graphics processor, so a stone never appears solid or black.
The AI Assistant and AI connections can create and edit gemstone materials, choose the lighting environment and quality, and check a project for gemstone problems.
Projects without gemstone or glass materials look and perform exactly as before.
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Variants keep their material's reflectivity after you click Apply, and edits to a library material now reach the variants that use it (Select Material, Dropdown, Pattern Designer and the other variant blocks) the next time you open the block.
Select Material blocks in From Category mode keep each material's index of refraction, specular, reflectivity and double-sided setting in the editor and Preview, as Share links already did.
Pattern Designer: Index of Refraction now applies to transparent bases, and a model's baked ambient occlusion and surface detail stay when a pattern is applied.
Reflections no longer turn black after the browser recovers from a graphics error, and moving a lighting slider no longer uses more memory with every step.
Material Editor: Ctrl/Cmd+S saves your latest edits (it saved the material as it was when the editor opened), and the Surface / Properties / Advanced tab labels show again.
Templates: a project created from a template now brings the materials of its "From Category" Select Material blocks — the category and every material in it — so those blocks show their options in your account. Copied materials and models keep their categories, and graphics used by the template are copied too. Projects created from a template before today keep the empty block; create them again from the template.
AI tools can read the 3D models of projects created from a template (they reported the model file as missing).
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A project created from a template no longer carries the template author's email server, sender and notification addresses, webhook, Google Analytics ID, custom scripts or store credentials. Those settings start empty for you to set; everything else is copied as before.
The 3D Model Library imports only from the libraries it offers (the Khronos glTF samples, the Smithsonian and Simplio3D's own models) and only stores genuine GLB files.
October 1, 2026
The AI Assistant works beside you: follow-ups, live steps and a panel that stays out of the way
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The AI Assistant now opens as a panel beside your project on desktop, so you can keep selecting blocks and parts while you talk — and "this" means what you have selected. It remembers what the conversation just worked on, so follow-ups like "change that to Walnut", "do the same for the other doors" or "undo the last change" work without repeating yourself, and it shows each step as it happens with a Stop button.
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Follow-ups understand "it", "that" and "the same" from what the conversation last worked on, and "undo the last change" means exactly the last reply's change.
Live progress in plain words while the assistant works, a Stop button, and "What I did" under every finished reply.
Suggested next steps under the newest reply — Preview it, Undo, Fix the issues found — based on what the reply actually did.
Remembered preferences: tell it "always use EUR" and it can offer to remember it. Nothing is saved until you click, and the Memory button lists everything it remembers.
A ✨ button opens the assistant on phones and tablets, where it fills the screen.
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The assistant reads your project before asking you anything a lookup could answer, finishes multi-step requests in one go, checks its work, and opens each reply with whether it is done, partly done or blocked.
Closing the panel no longer loses a reply that is still being written — you get a notification when it is ready, and the conversation is kept.
Proposals you approved or declined in Dashboard → AI Changes now show their real status in the chat.
Typing in the message box no longer triggers editor shortcuts such as Undo.
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If a reply is stopped or the connection drops, the assistant now lists the changes that had already been made instead of implying nothing happened.
After you edit something by hand, the assistant's next reply reads your saved edit instead of an earlier copy of the project.
Clearing a conversation now really clears it — it no longer came back the next time the assistant opened.
An editor button the assistant suggested but cannot perform no longer shows "Done!".
October 1, 2026
Models that fail to load stay in your project, and material settings that work as labelled
If a 3D model cannot be loaded when you open a project — a slow or interrupted connection — it now stays in the project and loads again next time; before, the next autosave could remove it permanently. Material settings now do what their labels say: Index of Refraction works on transparent materials, new materials keep their environment light, and Fixed Material blocks look the same in the editor and on your Share link.
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A model that fails to load is kept in the project. The notice offers Retry, hiding the notice, or "Remove from project…", and only that last option — after you confirm — takes the model out.
Index of Refraction (Material Editor → Advanced, Transparent materials) now changes how the material looks; before, it was ignored.
New materials, and the Flat preset, start with Reflection Strength 1 so they receive the scene's environment light. At 0 a material is lit only by the scene lights and usually looks much darker. Materials you already have are unchanged.
Opening a material that never stored Reflectivity or Reflection Strength now shows the values your Share link already uses, so saving it no longer changes how it looks.
Project Settings → Lighting no longer shows the Environment Preset picker: every preset rendered the same studio lighting, so it changed nothing. Use Exposure, Light Intensity and HDR Intensity to adjust lighting.
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Fixed Material blocks now save the material's Reflectivity, so the Preview and the Share view match the editor (before, they assumed a default value). Re-apply a Fixed Material entry to update one made earlier.
Prices calculated through the API, the SDK and the AI for a project whose pricing formula is incomplete now match the price shown in your configurator instead of 0.
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The WooCommerce settings page no longer receives your Consumer Key or stored access token — only that they are saved and the last four characters of the key — so team members who can view the workspace can no longer read them. Leave a field blank to keep the saved value.
The public quote endpoint used by headless integrations now accepts submissions only for real projects (shared ones, or calls made with the owner's API key), respects the owner's billing status like your Share links, and caps the size of a single submission.
October 1, 2026
AI: change history with undo, Fixed Material blocks, and changes that match your configurator
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The AI Assistant and connected AI apps (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) can now show you everything the AI changed or proposed, withdraw a proposal, and propose undoing a change — you approve the undo like any other change. They can also set up Fixed Material blocks, reorder options, price Modular modules and Number Input parameters, and build rules that react to placed modules. We reviewed every AI tool against what your Preview and Share view actually show, and corrected the ones that saved settings your configurator does not use.
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Ask "what did the AI change?" to get the full history: proposals waiting for your approval, applied changes and whether they can still be undone, and anything that failed.
Ask the AI to undo a change: it prepares the undo, you approve it in Dashboard → AI Changes, and the undo can itself be reversed.
Fixed Material blocks can be set up by the AI: library materials or plain colours applied automatically to a model or to specific parts.
The AI can reorder the options in a block, set prices for Modular modules and Number Input parameters, and create rules triggered by the modules a shopper places.
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Number inputs that resize a model are now set up the way the configurator applies them: every part that changes is listed, and parts that should move rather than stretch (handles, legs) are marked to move.
Changing tax or currency through the AI now always waits for your approval, because it changes what shoppers pay.
The AI checks that the models, parts and categories it points to exist before saving, and refuses settings your configurator does not use instead of saving them silently.
Shopify product links made by the AI now always include the product variant, so Add to Cart opens a working cart.
Projects created by the AI show their price and quote form on the Share view from the start.
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The customer confirmation e-mail is now sent even when the form's Email field has been renamed or translated; before, it was found only by the label "Email".
Links in "Save configuration" e-mails always point to your Simplio3D app address.
An AI undo can no longer restore an old store connection: only the checkout mode is put back, never a credential.
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Colour and font settings changed through the AI can no longer carry code into the shopper page, and the editor refuses AI changes to custom scripts, custom CSS and e-mail or store credentials.
