Choose Create, Enhance, or Edit
Pick a CAD Scene mode from your starting material and the change you need.
Updated Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read
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Choose Create for words, Enhance for a 3D screenshot, and Edit for marked changes to an existing image.
Compare the modes
Create starts from a description
Use Create when no source image should define the scene.
- Required: A non-empty prompt.
- Optional: Up to five composer reference images.
- Uses: The project's five-field Composition.
- Preserves: Nothing from a source image because there is no source.
Create is useful for early concepts and new views. Read Create.
Enhance starts from a 3D screenshot
Use Enhance when the camera and geometry already exist.
- Required: One explicit source image.
- Optional: A prompt and up to five composer reference images.
- Uses: The project's five-field Composition.
- Preserves: Camera, angle, perspective, framing, proportions, and major geometry as closely as the selected model allows.
- Changes: Materials, textures, lighting, atmosphere, vegetation, sky, and surface finish.
Enhance is usually the right choice for a Rhino, SketchUp, Revit, or Blender screenshot. Read Enhance.
Edit starts from an image and marked regions
Use Edit when most of the source should remain unchanged.
- Required: One source image, at least one marked region, and a label for every region.
- Optional: A global prompt and supported composer reference images.
- Uses: Region labels and the optional global prompt.
- Preserves: Unmarked pixels, camera, framing, and the existing photographic style as closely as the selected model allows.
- Changes: Instructs the model to change only the marked regions.
Edit references are available with Gemini models. OpenAI Edit uses only the source and mask. Read Edit.
Source images and reference images
A source image is the image Enhance or Edit modifies. Choose it in the Enhance or Edit image panel.
A composer reference image supplies visual guidance. It can suggest materials, palette, mood, or content. It does not replace a required source image.
The Project reference image has a third role. It generates Composition fields and is never used automatically as a mode source.
See Image roles and source-image preparation for the complete comparison.
Quick choice
- Have only an idea or brief? Choose Create.
- Have a screenshot whose view should stay fixed? Choose Enhance.
- Have a finished image with one local change? Choose Edit.
- Need a new camera view from an existing screenshot? Choose Create and describe the new view. Enhance is designed to retain the source camera.