Client · In development
3D configurator
A 3D configurator in development for Pentagon Security Shutters. It starts with the DefendaGuard rolling shutter, and the plan is for it to cover every product line Pentagon makes. Every choice updates the model and the spec the dealer receives.
What it is
Pentagon Security Shutters makes rolling security shutters for homes and businesses. A customer has a string of decisions to make before a dealer can quote, starting with the opening, the size, the mounting and the curtain. The configurator lets them make those decisions themselves, in a browser, and see the result as they go.
They pick the kind of opening: a window, a patio door, a garage or a storefront. They set the width and the height, in feet and inches or in millimeters, and choose the mounting and the curtain series. The shutter takes shape in 3D, with its slat count, housing size and estimated weight updating with every choice. They can open and close it, look inside the box, and see it with the interior light on. With a photo of their own building, they can see the shutter on the window or door they want to protect, and if the size they typed doesn’t match the opening in the photo, the configurator says so. When they’re happy, it produces a spec sheet in the format Pentagon’s own quotes use, with a reference code a dealer can type back to rebuild it. The configurator doesn’t quote prices; the dealer does, starting from a complete specification instead of a first phone call.
What we built
The configurator, as one file with the 3D engine built in, made to run on Pentagon’s own site and on phones with nothing to install. It is Pentagon’s product, under Pentagon’s name.
Behind it
An audit rebuilds the 3D model for 32,256 combinations of opening, size, mounting, housing and hardware, each closed, half open and open, and measures every overlap. It found 44 kinds of clipping, and now finds none. Photo placement is measured on 400 rendered scenes under 25 conditions, from off-center crops to barrel distortion, and the shutter lands within 0.5% of the image on 95 of 100 with lens data. A wrong size is caught on 96% of clear photos, with 0.5% false alarms. The photo never leaves the customer’s browser.
Where it stands
In development. It works end to end in a browser for the DefendaGuard rolling shutter, from choosing the opening to the spec sheet, and it is being refined against Pentagon’s own quotes and shop drawings. Pentagon’s other product lines follow, so that one configurator covers everything they make. It goes live when Pentagon says so.
More work
IWE, Fetchpawz and Pocket Philosophy, or all the work.
| Relationship | Client |
|---|---|
| Client | Pentagon Security Shutters |
| Status | In development |
| Product lines | DefendaGuard now, every line planned |
| Openings | Window, patio door, garage, storefront |
| Configurations audited | 32,256 |
| Placement | Within 0.5% of the image, 95 of 100 |
| Stack | three.js, in one HTML file |