Configurator overview

The configurator turns a project into a configurable product: shoppers pick variations per part, the model updates live, and every state maps to SKUs your store understands.

The building blocks

Concept	What it does
Product	One configurable product; a project can hold several.
Part	A configurable slot (body, legs, cushion). The first part is the product’s base.
Variation	One choice for a part — swaps geometry, material or both, and carries a SKU.
Link groups	Parts that change together — pick walnut for the body and linked parts follow, so finishes always match.
Visibility groups	Parts that appear/disappear together based on the shopper’s choices.
Rules	Sales logic as configuration: block combinations, hide options, auto-correct invalid states, and explain why an option is unavailable.
Per-part cameras	Each part can define its own camera framing — selecting the part eases the view to it.

The baseline: no relationships configured

Link groups, visibility groups and rules are layers on top of a working configurator — not requirements for one. With none of them configured, the engine behaves like this:

• Every part with 2+ variations gets its own independent picker row. Picking in one row never affects another.
• A part with a single variation is always present and shows no row — fixed elements of an assembly.
• The opening scene is each part’s starred default variation. A part with no default is optional: it stays unloaded until the shopper opts in.

Reach for a relationship only when that baseline is wrong for your product: several parts that must share one finish → a link group; alternative parts where only one may be visible at a time → a visibility group; combinations that must be blocked or corrected → rules.

A product with a single pickable part needs none of them — an empty relationship configuration is a valid, complete configurator, not an unfinished one.

Assembly

Multi-part products load their parts in parallel and reveal them together — shoppers never watch a product build up piece by piece. Part placement comes from each model’s exported coordinate frame (see Preparing models).

Validation before publishing

The Setup Check lints your configuration — unreferenced variations, empty parts, conflicting rules — and can auto-fill the gaps it finds, so broken states never reach shoppers.

Section guides

1. Products, parts & variations — the structure
2. Base part & assembly — multi-part placement
3. Link groups — shared finishes
4. Visibility groups — alternatives & coupling
5. The rules engine — sales logic as configuration
6. Cameras — opening view & per-part focus
7. SKU & pricing fields — commerce identifiers
8. Configurator lighting — one shared light, tuned on the assembly
9. Picker modes — list vs camera focus
10. Setup Check — lint before you publish
11. Quote requests — turn the summary into a lead form