Is the Canal house fronts 3D model free for commercial use?

Yes. It is free under the 1DesignTool 3D library license: use it in personal and commercial work — games, apps, websites, renders, ads and client projects — and modify it as you like, with no credit required. What you can't do is re-sell or re-distribute the file on its own or inside a model pack.

What file format is it, and how big is it?

A single binary glTF 2.0 file (.glb), 434 KB: 5,828 triangles, 17,484 vertices and 29 materials, modelled in metres at 14 m × 17 m × 8.7 m.

Can I animate Canal house fronts?

It ships as a static mesh. Its 9 named parts are separate nodes, so you can move or animate each one in your engine.

Which engines and tools can open it?

Anything that reads glTF 2.0. three.js, React Three Fiber, Babylon.js, Godot 4 and Blender import the GLB directly; Unity and Unreal Engine load it through their glTF importers. The snippets above show the exact code for three.js, React Three Fiber, Godot and Blender.

How was the Canal house fronts 3D model made?

Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5) generated it inside 1DesignTool's 3D template from a written brief, then the design kit's checks verified the geometry and the GLB before it was published. You can make your own the same way with 1DesignTool.

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Canal house fronts

A low-poly row of three narrow Amsterdam-style canal houses, each crowned by a different Dutch gable (step, neck and bell), with tall white-framed windows, a hoist beam over every loft door, stone stoops and two city bikes parked on the pavement. Part of the Bicycle City kit.

Original GLB434 KB Poster

Left rail: colours and the 4 knobs the agent wrote into this model — they rebuild the geometry and go into your download. Right rail: looks for the viewer. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom.

Triangles: 5,828
Vertices: 17,484
Meshes · materials: 29 · 29
Size (W × H × D): 14 m × 17 m × 8.7 m
File: GLB · 434 KB
Animation: Static
Style: Low-poly
Collection: Bicycle City

Palette · named materials

brick red lanes — brick front and body of the step-gable house (body)#c32222
brick red lanes dark — dark brick neck-gable house, chimney stacks, the fourth house's door (body)#821717
cream — plastered bell-gable house, sandstone copings, claw pieces, stoops and door surrounds (trim)#f1e7d0
warm white — window frames, sills, copings on the pale and green fronts (trim)#f2ede2
canal green dark — front doors, bell-house window frames, the painted fourth front (body)#235223
soot black — window glass, roofs, chimney caps, kerb, tyres, hoist hooks (glass)#1b1b22
mid grey — pavement, bike rims, hubs, bars and seat posts (base)#7d828c
dark wood — hoist beams, loft doors, a front door, saddles and bike crates (trim)#3d2a1c
bright bike colours — first bike frame (accent)#b39d80
canal green light — second bike frame (accent)#5db15d
brick red lanes light — first bike frame above bikeColours 0.75 (accent)#db5757

Use it

import { GLTFLoader } from "three/addons/loaders/GLTFLoader.js";

const gltf = await new GLTFLoader().loadAsync(
  "https://assets.stoicsoft.com/1designtool/3d/models/bicycle-city-canal-house-fronts/739b54172e/model.glb"
);
scene.add(gltf.scene); // metres, +Y up, front faces +Z

How it was made

The brief given to 1DesignTool's “3D object” template:

Canal house fronts for the Bicycle City kit. Design it as one clear asset at believable real-world scale for that setting (state the size in metres in meta.notes), with its main parts modelled and named, readable at thumbnail size and from every orbit angle. This is one part of the Bicycle City kit (Low-poly style, flat-lowpoly direction): Streets made for bikes. Use ONLY the kit palette, by name: brick red lanes #c32222, canal green #3a883a, bright bike colours #b39d80, cream #f1e7d0, brick red lanes dark #821717, canal green dark #235223, brick red lanes light #db5757, canal green light #5db15d, soot black #1b1b22, warm white #f2ede2, mid grey #7d828c, dark wood #3d2a1c. Every material's `name` must be exactly the palette colour it uses — the GLB carries these names so the kit recolours as one; an unnamed material fails delivery. Kit knob: expose a param `bikeColours` (0–1, default 0.5) for the kit's "Bike colours" setting wherever it makes sense on this part, and keep that id.

Agent: Claude Code · Claude Opus 5.5 in 1DesignTool
Direction: Low-poly · family scenes
three-check PASS · glb-lint PASS

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Named parts · 9

Canal house fronts
Pavement and kerb
House bodies
Front gables and copings
Roofs and chimneys
Windows
Doors and stoops
Hoist beams and loft doors
Parked bikes

Note: Size at the defaults: 13.9 m wide (x) × 8.7 m deep (z) × 16.75 m tall (to the top of the neck gable's pediment). The three houses are 4.6 m, 4.0 m and 5.2 m wide and 6 m deep, with a 3.4 m raised ground storey and 2.8 m upper storeys. The 2.4 m pavement in front is 0.12 m thick. The origin is at the bottom centre and the model rests on y = 0. The GLB has 5,828 triangles in 29 meshes, one mesh per part and colour. It is static and carries no animation clip. Normals are baked flat (non-indexed). Every material is named exactly after the kit palette colour it uses. 10 of the 12 colours appear at the defaults: canal green is unused, and brick red lanes light appears only when bikeColours is above 0.75. bikeColours (the kit's 'Bike colours') paints the parked bike frames: all soot black below 0.25, bright bike colours / canal green light / cream up to 0.75, and brick red lanes light / canal green light / cream above that. houseCount (2–4) adds houses in the cycle step, neck, bell, then a painted green cornice front. storeys (3–5) sets the floor count. bikesParked (0–3) sets the number of bikes. Each roof ridge runs front-to-back and its pitch is solved so it stays inside the gable outline. Params are baked into the GLB at their defaults. They change the geometry only when the scene is rebuilt in the viewer. Three-check passed at the defaults and at 4 houses × 5 storeys × 3 bikes (about 8,450 model triangles) and at 2 × 3 × 0. glb-lint: 0 errors. Its verdict reads UNVERIFIED only because no requirements contract was supplied. The 5 warnings are heuristics and all expected: material count (29 mesh materials, 10 unique names), duplicate material names, non-indexed flat shading, overlapping sibling boxes (merged per-part meshes nest on the facade), and a height of 16.75 m against a 1 m reference. plan-check rejects only the hyphenated library part ids, because its regex allows no hyphen. The same plan passes with the slug de-hyphenated. three-check and the GLB keep all 9 ids. Two fix rounds: (1) windows and a plinth band on the exposed end walls, plus a wider hero framing; (2) bikes staggered in depth so neighbouring bikes never touch at 4 houses.

About the Canal house fronts 3D model

Canal house fronts is a free low-poly 3D model from the Bicycle City set. It measures 14 m × 17 m × 8.7 m (W × H × D) at real-world scale and is built from 5,828 triangles across 29 meshes, with 9 named parts. Download the 434 KB GLB and drop it into three.js, React Three Fiber, Godot or Blender — free for commercial use, no attribution required.

Is the Canal house fronts 3D model free for commercial use?: Yes. It is free under the 1DesignTool 3D library license: use it in personal and commercial work — games, apps, websites, renders, ads and client projects — and modify it as you like, with no credit required. What you can't do is re-sell or re-distribute the file on its own or inside a model pack.
What file format is it, and how big is it?: A single binary glTF 2.0 file (.glb), 434 KB: 5,828 triangles, 17,484 vertices and 29 materials, modelled in metres at 14 m × 17 m × 8.7 m.
Can I animate Canal house fronts?: It ships as a static mesh. Its 9 named parts are separate nodes, so you can move or animate each one in your engine.
Which engines and tools can open it?: Anything that reads glTF 2.0. three.js, React Three Fiber, Babylon.js, Godot 4 and Blender import the GLB directly; Unity and Unreal Engine load it through their glTF importers. The snippets above show the exact code for three.js, React Three Fiber, Godot and Blender.
How was the Canal house fronts 3D model made?: Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5) generated it inside 1DesignTool's 3D template from a written brief, then the design kit's checks verified the geometry and the GLB before it was published. You can make your own the same way with 1DesignTool.