Projects

A Project is the container for one design effort. It holds project settings, studies, and every render made inside them.

Project setup options

A new empty project offers three starting points. Each one prepares the shared Composition before the first render.

• Generate from a realistic image uses a Project reference image to generate the five Composition fields. Choose this when you have a finished render or a photograph of a real place.
• Generate from a description turns a short written brief into the five fields. Choose this when the design direction is clearer in words.
• Pick a style opens on Built-in presets and applies one complete five-field direction. My presets remains available for returning users.

Select Skip for now to enter the workspace with empty fields. You can configure every Project setting later.

Project hierarchy

The Composition and optional Project reference image sit at Project level. Every Study uses that shared context. Each Study keeps its own Feed and renders.

The Project view keeps shared context above the separate Study branches. A change to Project settings affects future sends across those branches.

Create a project

Open the Projects dashboard and select New Project. CAD Scene creates an Untitled Project and opens it immediately.

The dashboard shows up to 20 projects per page. Before a project has a finished render, its Project reference image appears as the project thumbnail. After the first finished render, the render becomes the main thumbnail and the Project reference image moves to a small inset at the bottom right.

Projects created from directory prompts

Selecting Use in CAD Scene in the architecture prompt directory always creates a new Untitled Project. The handoff never reuses the most recent Project and never changes another Project's settings.

The new Project opens directly in the Composer. Its setup screen stays out of the way because choosing the prompt is the starting decision. The prompt is filled but not sent. If a browser retries the handoff, CAD Scene returns to the same newly created Project instead of creating duplicates.

The setup screen and Projects dashboard link directly to Project setup options.

To rename a project, open its actions menu and choose Rename. You can also select the project name in its workspace header. Press Enter or leave the field to save. Press Escape to cancel the change.

Project settings

Project settings are the shared render context for the whole project. They include the Composition and the optional Project reference image.

The Composition contains five fields:

• Style
• Scene
• Lighting
• Materials
• Entourage

Every study reads the same saved fields. A field edit stays local until you select Save or press Command-S on macOS or Control-S elsewhere.

The Settings tab also holds Default render settings. These include the model and its supported options. Create may expose Aspect. Models may expose Resolution. GPT image models may expose Quality. You can override these settings for a Composer session without changing the project defaults.

The app-wide Default model in /settings seeds new projects only. Each project then stores its own model and native defaults. Those project defaults seed new Composer sessions across its studies.

For field generation, Presets, and versions, read Composition and the five fields.

Project reference image

The Project reference image helps write the five Composition fields. Select Generate Composition to read the image and replace those field values.

The image is not sent as a render input. Create and Enhance read the saved fields. Edit uses a separate source image, named regions, and one required prompt.

You can replace or clear the Project reference image. Clearing it does not change existing renders or saved field values.

See Image roles and source-image preparation before choosing an image for this role.

Trash and restore

The Projects dashboard separates Active projects from Trash.

To move a project:

1. Open the project's actions menu.
2. Select Move to Trash.
3. Open the Trash tab to find it.

A project in Trash is read-only. Its workspace shows a restore notice, and project changes are blocked until restoration.

Select Restore from the Trash row or the workspace notice. The project returns to Active with its contents intact.

Permanent deletion is available only in Trash:

1. Open the trashed project's actions menu.
2. Select Delete forever.
3. Read the warning and confirm Delete forever.

This removes the project and all its renders. It cannot be undone.