For garden rooms, sheds, fencing and decking
Design it, price it and sell it in 3D
Draw what you build from the materials you really use. VisualConfig works out the cutting list and the price from the same model, and lets your customers configure their own on your website.
Free trial · No card needed · The garden room on this page is a real configurator
The floor plan
Draw it on the plan, or push and pull it in 3D
Sketch a footprint, stand a partition across it and drop doors and windows onto any wall. Every wall is built as you draw it, from the build-ups you choose, so the plan is the building, not a picture of one.
- Draw block
- Add wall
- Draw fence
- Draw path
- Draw area
For a store or a shower room at one end.
Layers and materials
Built from what you actually build with
Every face is a stack of real layers, each a material you buy, laid the way you lay it. Change how it's built and the model, the cutting list and the price all change with it.
Roof
Base
A wall, outside in
- Siberian larch
- Counter battens
- Breather membrane
- OSB3 sheathing
- C24 studs at 600, mineral wool between
- Painted MDF lining
Costs
Priced from the model, by your own suppliers
Every board, sheet and litre the model is built from is counted, the cuts are packed into the lengths you buy, and each line is priced against your suppliers' SKUs. Pick a line and put your own price on it.
Take-off
4 × 3 m, timber frame
| Material | Cost | ||
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| Counting the model… | |||
| Materials, before VAT | — | ||
The price list holds 37 SKUs from one supplier, and every price on it is illustrative.
Illustrative prices from an invented merchant, before VAT.
The build pack
Not just a pretty picture: the paperwork to build it
Every design prints as a job pack for the office and the workshop: the model on the cover, then every wall set out stud by stud with its cutting list, and what to order from whom. It's written from the same model the customer configured, so the factory builds what was sold.
Here's the front wall's page, and the same frame picked out on the model.
Setting out the front wall…
Garden room · job pack
Customers and calendar
From enquiry to handover, in one place
Enquiries arrive with the design the customer built. Book the survey, order the materials and plan the build, and the programme follows how it's built: panels made in a factory, or a frame put up on site.
New enquiry: garden room, 4 × 3 m, timber frame
From your website, design attached
Build programme
Working days · weekends left out
Site survey
Materials ordered
Concrete slab poured
Slab cures
Timber delivered
Frame built
Roof on
Cladding and oil
Electrics and lining
Handover
- On site
- In the office
- Delivery
- On site
- 18 working days
- Handed over
- Fri 6 Nov
Your website
Your configurator, in your colours, on your own site
Publish it as a page or put it inside your own website: your name, your colours and your questions. Size it here and scroll back up: it's the same room everywhere.
Garden Rooms
Design your garden studio
Roof
- Your logo and two colours dress every control
- Embedded in your site, or on your own domain
- Customers can stand it in their garden in AR
AI assistant
Set it up by asking
Tell the assistant what you sell and it adds the materials, build-ups and designs for you to check. It can redraw any design as a picture for your brochure, too.
Assistant
- Assistant: Tell me what to change. I will redraw it from your build-ups, count it again and price it from your suppliers.
Try asking
Examples
One configurator, a whole range
The same design is an office, a studio, a gym or a summer room, answered differently. Try one.
Also drawn, priced and sold with VisualConfig
- Garden rooms
- Sheds and workshops
- Fencing and gates
- Decking and patios
- Pergolas and carports
- Log cabins
From the first sketch to the cutting list
For firms that design, make and install garden rooms, sheds, fencing, decking and timber buildings. One model gives you the picture, the price and the plans.
Draw it in 3D, or on the plan
Buildings, walls, roofs, decks, fences and paths. Push a wall out, split a roof into a gable, and drop doors and windows onto any face.
Built from what you actually use
Every face is a stack of real layers: studs at centres, sheets laid from the corner, cladding, membranes and coats of paint. Openings are framed for you.
The take-off comes from the model
A cutting list packed into the lengths you buy, your wastage allowance, and every line priced against your own suppliers.
One design, a whole range
A configurator turns a design into a product: widths in whole bays, cladding in six colours, a door the customer can slide along the wall.
Customers design it on your website
Publish a configurator as a page, or put it in your own site. Every enquiry arrives with the design they built, ready to price.
A job pack for the people building it
Face plans with set-out marks, cut lists and materials grouped by supplier, in one PDF.
On the real ground
Bring in a phone scan of the garden, stand the building on it, and see how much soil has to come out.
See it in the garden
Customers can place the design in augmented reality from their phone, on iPhone and Android alike.
Set up by asking
Tell the assistant what you sell and it adds the materials, build-ups and designs for you to check.
How it works
01
Add your materials
Your suppliers, the sizes you buy and what you pay, or add them from the shared catalogue and put your own prices on.
02
Build it once
Put your constructions together as build-ups, draw a design from them, and add a configurator for the choices a customer gets.
03
Sell it and build it
Publish it for customers, price each enquiry from the model, and send the job pack to whoever is building it.
Packages
Every new account starts with a 14-day free trial of Professional, with no card needed. Every package is built on the same core, and each one adds to the last.
In every package
- 3D design editor, plan and elevations
- Materials, suppliers and build-ups
- Configurators with your own rules
- Take-off, cut lists and pricing
- Face plans and job pack PDFs
- Customers and your team
Hobby
The core of the product for somebody working on their own.
Includes
- Public configurators and leadsPublish a design as a public page, and receive the enquiries it sends.
Professional
Free trialEverything a firm needs to sell and schedule its work.
Everything in Hobby, plus
- CalendarBook site visits and installs against customers.
- Labour and tradesTrades, hourly rates and how long each build-up takes to put up.
- Setup assistant — 100 requests a monthAsk the AI assistant to set materials, build-ups and designs up.
- AI imagesRedraw a design as a styled picture with the image model.
- EmbeddingShow a public configurator inside a frame on the company's own website.
Manufacturer
Professional, plus the integrations and a domain of its own.
Everything in Professional, plus
- Custom domainServe public configurators from the company's own address rather than ours.
- API accessAPI keys and the MCP server can reach the company.
- Webhooks Coming soon Tell the company's own systems when something happens.
- Setup assistant — unlimitedAsk the AI assistant to set materials, build-ups and designs up.
Frequently asked questions
Who is VisualConfig for?
Firms that design and build in timber: garden rooms, sheds, summerhouses, fencing, decking, pergolas and the like, whether you install them yourself or make them to sell. If what you build can be described as layers of material on a frame, it can be drawn and priced here.
Do I need to know CAD?
No. You draw on a plan or push and pull faces in 3D, and the framing, cladding and sheets are laid out by the build-ups you choose. You say how a wall is built once, and every design that uses it is built the same way.
Where do the prices come from?
From your own suppliers. Each material carries the sizes you buy and what each supplier charges, and the take-off picks the cheapest way to buy what the model needs, including your wastage allowance. Customers on a public page never see your costs or your suppliers.
Can customers use it on my own website?
Yes. Publish a configurator and customers can design their own and send it to you as an enquiry. Depending on your package, it can also sit inside your existing website or be served from your own domain.
Can I use my own 3D models?
Yes. Upload glTF, OBJ, FBX, STL and other common formats to place furniture, a house or a phone scan of the garden beside your design. A scan can be marked as the ground, so a building stands on it and the dig is measured.
What happens when the free trial ends?
The dashboard locks until you choose a package. Your materials, designs and customers are kept, so you carry on where you left off.
Draw your first design today
Create an account in under a minute and start a free trial. Add a few materials, draw a building from them and see it priced.