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12 Unique 3D CAD Configurators Now Live in Production 🚀 Collaboration between The Shim Shack and bitbybit.dev has resulted in 12 custom CAD configurators, now live on a production e-commerce platform. I’m especially proud of this project because it demonstrates how Bitbybit Runners can bring powerful 3D design experiences directly into existing websites - making them accessible to both non-experts and businesses. 🔗 Blog post: https://lnkd.in/dB_CcttV 🔗 4K on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dyCFFNah 🔗 Live site: https://lnkd.in/dxAQXj2B About the project The Shim Shack is a U.S.-based manufacturer specializing in custom shims, brackets, spacers, washers, mounting plates, and other precision metal parts. Every part is laser-cut to exact specifications - any dimension, any configuration. Their Build Your Parts portal allows customers to design and order custom components directly online. Why Runners? From the start, it was clear that Runner technology was the ideal foundation. Runners allow Bitbybit scripts to be embedded and executed on virtually any website - including WordPress with WooCommerce - without disrupting existing systems. 🔗 Learn more about Runners: https://lnkd.in/d6TkphpS Key advantages Instead of rebuilding the platform, we preserved the existing infrastructure and layered 3D configurators on top. Each configurator runs as a self-contained script within product pages - making them easy to maintain, update, and scale independently. This approach saved significant development time and kept the focus where it matters most: delivering a powerful and intuitive configurator experience. Designed for real users These tools aren’t just for CAD engineers. They’re built for maintenance technicians, facility managers, and procurement specialists - people who need custom parts but don’t work in CAD software daily. Each configurator: - Validates inputs against real manufacturing constraints - Prevents invalid geometry (e.g., overlapping features or insufficient material) - Provides clear, actionable error messages - Once a design is ready, users can add it to the cart and purchase, part gets manufactured and delivered based on specification - It is also possible to export to STEP and DXF files for downstream engineering workflows #TheShimShack #Bitbybit #CAD #3D #3DConfigurator #Manufacturing #LaserCutting #WordPress #WooCommerce #Ecommerce #Geometry #JavaScript #OCCT #DigitalManufacturing #ProductEngineering #Engineering #IndustrialDesign #STEP #DXF #CAE #MassCustomization #Customization #Design #Parametric #ParametricDesign #Web

✅ Arrived at HANNOVER MESSE ✅ Tested bitbybit.dev slides on sharp TV Screen ✅ Visited 🇱🇹 "Lithuania 2030 - The Country of Engineering" Pavilion by LINPRA - Engineering and Technology Industries Association of Lithuania ✅ Talked to many cool companies ✅ Saw a drone 🚀 ✅ Saw a robot 🤖 🕔 Will hit CAE-Forum meetup at 17:00, join if you're around 🕐 Listen to talks by CAE Forum presenters, including the one by Aleksander Sadowski 🕑 Deliver the presentation 14:00-14:30 🕑 Enjoy Hannover during the weekend #CAD #3D #Bitbybit #HannoverMesse #CAE #Engineering

bitbybit.dev CAD Cloud is live 🚀 It generates 3D models, runs OCCT pipelines, converts STEP files - all via a simple REST API from any language or backend. It can also run your custom algorithms through tenant workflows (for B2B / enterprise folks). If that’s you - reach out or drop me an email. 👉 Get your API key: https://lnkd.in/dmFYy8pR 🎥 Full 4K walkthrough: https://lnkd.in/dT2jpasT Now, before someone calls me out - “Wait… aren’t you the run everything in the browser guy?” Yes. Yes, I am 😄 And I still believe in it. The browser is amazing. But… what if your model takes an hour to compute? Are you really going to keep that tab open and just… watch it? Or what if you need to generate 1,000+ parametric models per day? At some point - cloud compute, parallelization, and scale just make sense. I’ve been hinting for a while that Bitbybit stack could run on the server. Finally decided to stop hinting and actually build it. It wasn’t easy. But it works. And it’s here. 🎉 As configurators get more complex - and AI starts generating parametric logic on top - I’m pretty convinced cloud-based 3D compute is going to be a core piece of the stack for manufacturing, design, and engineering. #Bitbybit #CAD #3DModeling #CloudComputing #APIs #Engineering #ParametricDesign #DevTools #TechLaunch #OCCT

🛍️ At bitbybit.dev I’m building tools for the clients who sell products on Shopify by using 3D models 🚀 If you're working with configurable products here's the latest tutorial: https://lnkd.in/dMtHjm5t Yeah, it’s 37 minutes - pretty thorough. Or… I’m just chatty 😊 I explain how the latest features of 3D Bits can help you achieve optimal results (https://lnkd.in/d8cPkHX5) Little secret: it all starts in Blender. Inside, I cover: • packing multiple product variants into a single glTF file • using 3D Bits with Shopify to drive product customization • emulating the GUI from your product page • using templates for draft vs live products • and debugging directly on your product page I know, I know - here I am… still making tutorials in 2026. Who does that? But it's just so much faster to answer client questions with the links to videos, it does make sense to me 😄 AI or not, one thing I keep seeing: the best tangible results come from close collaboration. So if you're building something in this space - or thinking about it - feel free to reach out. And if you're also still watching tutorials in 2026… yeah, we’re in this together 🙂 Thanks Eric Chadwick and The Khronos Group for the amazing assets that make this content possible. Legal © 2021, Wayfair. CC BY 4.0 International Eric Chadwick for Models and Textures #Tutorial #3DBits #3D #Shopify #Blender #Configurator #3DConfig #CAD #Ecommerce #Ecomm #MaterialVariants #Products #Design #Chair #GLTF #Web3D #WebCAD #Geometry #Programming #Learn #HowTo #Merchants #Collab #Video #Explanation #Intro #Bitbybit #Khronos

WebBubbleBIM An odd loocking software that started to act like a gamified BIM modeler. Network Graphs implementation. Techstack: - TypeScript - Babilonjs - bitbybit.dev - python - ezdxf - fastAPI - PostgreDB WIP - Rust implementation for BackEnd. Some weekend fun. Will be back with details after the first full model is generated.

🏗️ CAD experts trying to work with STEP assemblies on the web know the challenges well. Usually, it involves heavy server-side processing or sacrificing data structure. The latest bitbybit.dev release candidate takes a slightly different approach to address this. New algorithms now allow the platform to load, parse, query, and create complex BREp assemblies entirely client-side. The core of Bitbybit can now convert STEP and stpZ files to gLTF while parsing XCAF document labels and attributes. It allows for creating and structuring OCCT shapes into proper assemblies - complete with assigned colors, names, parts, instances, and sub-assemblies. Who will benefit most from this update? - Computational Designers using parametric editors on Bitbybit. - B2B Clients needing custom tools that output professional, well-structured CAD assets. - Developers using Bitbybit NPM packages to build rich 3D apps in #ThreeJS, -#BabylonJS, or #PlayCanvas. - Integration Seekers wanting better interoperability with FreeCAD, Fusion 360, SolidWorks, CATIA and other systems. Explore the release: 📝 Blog Post: https://lnkd.in/d-g9MNyb 💻 Tutorials: https://lnkd.in/dVc_WGef 📺 4K Demo: https://lnkd.in/dUx78t2m 📦 GitHub: https://lnkd.in/dNAzwSVq A special note of thanks to the FreeCAD Project Association and FarmBot Inc communities. Some of the 3D assets seen in the demo come from your contributions, which made testing these features much more effective. P.S. - Release Candidate means that these new features are still evolving. You can use them today, but expect some changes and improvements. #CAD #STEP #Assembly #OCCT #3D #Bitbybit #CAE #Engineering #IndustrialDesign #Automation #Parametric #ParametricDesign #Programming #AEC #Software #Web #CNC #BREp #Solid #Structure #VisualProgramming #STEM #STEAM #EdTech #FreeCAD #FarmBot #WebDev #IndieDev #GameDev #WASM #WebAssembly #Release #News #ComputationalDesign #ComputationalGeometry #Design #StructuralEngineering #WebGL #WebGPU