3Dillo for general contractors

Get the sign-off on the room, not the drawing.

At the bid, before demo, and when the plan changes: furnished, lit 3D stills and a walkthrough video made from the floor plan.

3Dillo is the 3D product from the makers of CADdillo, on 3dillo.ai. Same account, same credits. Opening and exporting DWG/DXF is always free.

Open office floor with paired desks, monitors and task chairs facing a window
Office: the open floor, desks from the plan. Rendered by 3Dillo.
The problem

Where jobs go sideways

"That is not what I pictured"

The client signed the plan, then sees the framed room and asks for a change you have to price and schedule.

Bids look alike on paper

Two numbers and two plan sets: the client picks on price because nothing else is different.

Changes are hard to explain

A change order is a line of text and a sketch, and the client has to imagine the result.

How 3Dillo solves it

From the plan to the client's yes

  1. 1

    Start from the job's plan

    A DWG or DXF floor plan from the architect or your own drafter. No plan yet? Dillo, the AI drafter, can draw one.

  2. 2

    Show the finished rooms

    Furnished, lit stills and a walkthrough through every room, to put in the bid or the sign-off meeting.

  3. 3

    Render the change

    When the plan changes, have the new version rendered for 100 credits so the client approves what will be built.

Every image on this page is a 3Dillo render of a floor plan. Watch the full 3D house walkthrough.

Answers

3Dillo for general contractors: questions

How do GCs use 3Dillo in a bid?

Render the floor plan and include the stills and the walkthrough with your number, so the client sees the finished rooms next to the price. To have your own plan rendered: open the 3Dillo app, sign in free and upload your DXF or DWG, up to 25 MB, under Start a Scene: 3Dillo builds a 3D scene from the drawing, and you change and render it with Dillo. An uploaded drawing arrives as its ground floor, without furniture yet. Furnished rooms come with a plan Dillo draws or a template.

Can I show a client a change before they approve it?

Yes. Edit the plan and have the changed version rendered; a re-render after an edit is 100 credits, the same as the first render. The client compares the two before signing.

Does 3Dillo do takeoffs, estimates or schedules?

No. 3Dillo makes 3D renders and walkthrough videos from a floor plan. Quantities, pricing and scheduling stay in your estimating tools.

Will the render show the exact finishes the client picked?

No. Walls, doors, windows and rooms come from the plan; 3Dillo furnishes, finishes and lights the rooms. Use the render to agree the layout, and your selections sheet for finishes.

Can I hand the renders to the client and use them in my marketing?

You keep the rights to your drawings and to the renders made from them (3Dillo terms of service). Rendered files are kept for 30 days and then deleted, so download what you want to keep.

What does a render for a job cost?

On pay as you go, every 3D render is 100 credits, flat: a set of photoreal stills or a walkthrough video, a first render or a re-render after an edit. Credits for a render that fails are given back automatically. Pay-as-you-go credit packs are $10 for 100 credits, $20 for 250, $30 for 500 or $50 for 1,000, with no subscription. For teams and firms, Consulting starts at $499 a month (runs on dedicated cloud GPU capacity; priced on seats and usage; scoped with your team by inquiry). Every new account starts with 50 free credits and no card; those are for trying the AI drafter, and a render needs a credit pack. Full details are on 3dillo.ai/pricing.

How long does a render take during a bid?

There is no fixed turnaround: renders run on a shared GPU queue, a set of stills is quicker than a walkthrough, and at busy times both take longer. A walkthrough is well over a thousand rendered frames; the ranch house walkthrough at caddillo.com/3d-house-walkthrough/ is 1,606 frames, 67 seconds at 24 frames a second.

Get the sign-off on the room, not the drawing.

Have a plan you want rendered? Tell the 3Dillo team about it; they reply by email and you attach the DWG or DXF.

Buying for a team or a firm? See 3Dillo Consulting, priced on seats and usage.

Who 3Dillo is for