True Point

Pool quoting & inventory

True Point is a quoting and inventory tool built for a concrete and fibreglass pool builder. It reads the CAD the firm already draws in — SolidWorks or Revit — runs the exact geometry in the browser, and prices it against what is actually on the shelf, so a change the client asks for is drawn, priced and back in front of them the same day. What leaves the office is a quote validated against sourcing and lead times, and a fabrication order the factory can build from, with a delivery date that holds.

Geometry

Exact B-rep

OpenCascade, not a mesh

Quantities

Off the solid

Saved as a potential quote

On acceptance

Materials required

Stock, shortfall, lead times

Configurator

Live

Drag it yourself, below

The screen the client is in

Start here, because this is the only screen most people ever see. The client never opens the configurator and never reads the schedule; they get a link, and this is what is behind it. Same document, same solid, same numbers, said in the words of someone who is buying a pool rather than building one. Depth is not a parameter, it is 1.2 metres at the shallow end and 1.9 metres at the deep end over a 10.0 m swim. The barrier is not a line item at $415/lm, it is 39.0 lineal metres of frameless glass standing 1200 mm off finished ground, which keeps the view open where a fence would close it off, and it is there because AS 1926.1 requires it.

Everything on it is a measured figure rather than a description. The pool is 10.0 × 4.0 m holding 62.0 m³ of water across 40.0 m² of surface. The paving around it runs to 51.0 m² with 28.0 lineal metres of bullnose coping on the rim. The hole it sits in is 124 m³ of excavation. The shell is a single moulding with a 150 mm wall and an R1050 corner radius, which is why the plan reads as an oval rather than a rectangle. Every one of those numbers is read off the same solid the factory builds from, so none of them can drift from the drawing.

The price is one number, fixed, with the single condition that could move it stated plainly: the soil report. There is an Accept button and a way to ask a question, and a timeline showing the quote issued, the deposit next, and 15 weeks to handover behind a 9 week shell lead. Nothing here was re-typed from the office view; it is the same quote rendered for the person paying it. The office screens that produce it are further down this page.

What the pool company sees

A quote request does not go out as a promise and get repaired later. Before it is issued, every line is checked against the shelf: eight SKUs in the worked example, four of them short by $62,627.60, and a nine week shell lead that sets the 15 week programme. The sourcing and the lead time sit behind each line, so the figure the client sees is the figure the firm can hold.

That is what cut the amendment traffic. When the client asks for travertine instead of porcelain, the change is drawn, re-priced and back in front of them and the salesperson on the same screen, not a revised PDF a week later. Every change lands as a revision on the one document — the issued pack is TP-2418-R3, the working document is at rev 14 — so any figure on any sheet traces back to the change that moved it.

The moment a quote is accepted, the take-off becomes a materials-required list: every SKU the job needs, what is on the shelf against it, what has to be ordered, and the lead behind each order. That screen is below, as it stood one minute after the Halvorsen acceptance.

What the manufacturing business sees

The factory reads the same document. The fabrication order FO-1184 is cut from rev 14, so manufacturing sees what is inbound while the quote is still being settled rather than when the deposit clears, and the delivery date on the client's timeline is one the shop floor has already planned for.

The interface

No left-hand navigation. A top rail carries the document and the four things a designer moves between; underneath it the workspace is the shape every CAD user already knows: feature history on one side, the model in the middle, the selected feature's parameters on the other. The price updates as a consequence of the geometry, in the same panel.

What the design actually cost to arrive at

A pool quote is not one number, it is a number that moves. The screen tracks one project from first site visit to order: the quoted value over time, the revisions behind it, and the feedback events that moved the line. Taking the spa out is the drop that dominates the chart; every rise after it is value bought back a line at a time.

Options, priced as you move them

A quote answers what it costs; it rarely answers what you get for the money. So the drawing and the price are the same object: drag the length, swap the surround, change the coping, and the plan redraws while every affected line re-prices. The lines that do not depend on size sit still.

This is the real thing, not a recording. Move the steppers. Porcelain tile, travertine, clay paver and honed concrete each carry their own rate and their own drawn surface; the bullnose and the square edge are different profiles at different money; and the glass barrier is drawn to AS 1926.1 because in Australia it is not optional.

A reader who does not touch the screen should still see the mechanism, so here are four moves off that baseline with the figures they actually produce. The change is the part that matters, and the count beneath it: not just that the total moved, but how few lines moved with it. Change the surround material and one line re-prices. Change the length and six do, because six of them are measured off the shell. Nothing here is asserted; each row is the same price() the embed above runs.

The official quote

The same model is the source of both documents that leave the office. Nothing is re-entered between them: the client sheet and the fabrication order are two renderings of one solid, which is why the barrier run on the quote and the barrier setout on the fabrication order can never disagree.

The hard part is the barrier, not the pool

A paved courtyard is a parts list. A pool is a regulated assembly, and most of the difficulty sits outside the water: the barrier, the gates, the level change, the plant run. So the configurator carries the fence material and height, the number of gates and what they are made of, whether the surround is in-ground or raised, the step down between levels, an adjoining or separate spa, the cover, the heating, the water treatment, and how far the filter housing sits from the pool.

Those options are not decoration. Choose a fully above-ground surround and the ground on the outside of the barrier falls away, so a 1500 mm fence reads 550 mm from the outside face and the configuration stops being compliant. The panel says so, in the same words a certifier would use. AS 1926.1 sets 1200 mm as the minimum from finished ground, with a 900 mm non-climbable zone, gaps under 100 mm, and gates that are self-closing and self-latching. A quoting tool that cannot see that is quoting a pool that cannot be signed off.

A pool with no chlorine in it

Choose freshwater and the chlorinator line disappears from the quote. In its place the model adds a regeneration zone, sized as a proportion of the swim area, and a sand and gravel bed. This is a swimming pond: the water is cleaned biologically by the root zone of the planting and by the bed it passes through, and it circulates slowly rather than being pushed through a filter under pressure.

It is also the case that proves the point about geometry. The planting is generated from the shape of the regeneration zone, so every stem carries its own height, lean and seed head, and changing the zone ratio replants the bed at the same density rather than stretching a picture of one.

Modelled, not drawn

Every pool on this page is a solid, not an illustration. Sketch, extrude, fillet the corners to R1050, shell to a 150 mm wall, pattern the supports along a datum and cut them to the falling ground. Fifty-one solids, 327 faces, every body valid — and the wall material is 7.795 m³ because that is what the kernel measured, not what someone estimated.

The model exports as STEP and a fabricator can open it. That is the difference between a picture of a pool and a model of one: the drawing, the quote and the fabrication order are three readings of the same solid, so no quantity can drift between them.

An exact hidden-line drawing generated from the solid: plan, elevations and isometric at 1:50, third angle. Produced by the kernel, not traced.

What is drawn

The whole run, CAD to payment