For wrap shops
Cut your reprint rate
to zero.
Surface is the design tool wrap shops asked for: direct-on-vehicle 3D design, panel-aware export, and photo-real previews that get client sign-off in one round. Stop adapting Illustrator to a job it was never built for.
Built for the shop floor
The three things eating your margin
Pain 01
Hours per project lost to manual panel layout in Illustrator.
With Surface
Design directly on the 3D vehicle. Surface knows where the panels are, where the cuts go, and where to add bleed.
Pain 02
Reprints from misaligned panels destroy margin on every job.
With Surface
Panel-aware export with bleed, overlap, and registration marks baked in. What you preview is what prints.
Pain 03
Client revisions blow up the timeline because mockups are abstract.
With Surface
Send a photo-real preview the client can rotate. Sign-off comes faster because the design lives on the actual vehicle.
What you get
Three features that change the math
3D vehicle templates
A library of dimensionally accurate vehicles — vans, box trucks, sedans, food trucks, trailers. Body panels, door cuts, and trim breaks already mapped.
Panel-ready export
Production files that match the install — panel-by-panel PDFs, EPS, or AI with bleed, overlap, and registration. Ship to your printer or print in-house with confidence.
Photo-real previews
Render mockups in seconds — same vehicle, real lighting, real environments. Send a link, get sign-off, move on.
The workflow
From quote to ship in five steps
01
Load the vehicle
Pick from the template library or upload a custom model. Surface ingests the panel geometry automatically.
02
Design on the surface
Drop in artwork, type, and brand assets directly on the 3D model. Move the camera, rotate the vehicle, see how the design reads from any angle.
03
Auto-split for panels
Surface splits your design into print-ready panels with the right bleed, overlap, and alignment marks for your printer.
04
Preview and approve
Render a photo-real mockup and share a client-friendly link. Comments and approvals tracked in one place.
05
Ship to print
Export production-grade panel files. PDF, EPS, AI — whatever your shop or RIP expects.
Working principle
Reprints aren’t a design problem. They’re a handoff problem — a panel layout that fights the vehicle, a file that doesn’t carry its print specs, a preview the client could approve without seeing what would actually land on the truck. Surface fixes the handoff.
From the Surface team
Wrap your first vehicle
in Surface.
Free trial. No credit card. Real production files at the end of it.
Reading list
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For the wrap-shop floor
Blog
The true cost of a wrap reprint
Original research on what reprints actually cost a small shop — and how to never do one again.
Coming soon
Use case
Box truck wraps
Panel layouts, common sizes, and what the customer actually wants on the back door.
Coming soon
Case study
Real wrap shops on Surface
How small shops are getting from quote to production faster with Surface in their stack.
Coming soon