Getting started and workspace map

CAD Scene turns words or a 3D screenshot into an architectural render. Each project keeps its settings, studies, and renders together.

New accounts start with a five-step welcome tour. It introduces Create, Enhance, and Edit. Use Continue, the arrow controls, or the step dots to move through it. You can also skip the tour after confirming.

The final step offers two useful starts:

• Create project opens a new project named Untitled Project.
• Open the sample project opens a prepared project you can inspect.

A new empty project then asks how you want to set it up:

1. Generate from a realistic image uploads a Project reference image and generates the five Composition fields.
2. Generate from a description turns a short description into those fields.
3. Pick a style opens on Built-in presets and also lists your saved Presets.

Choose Skip for now if you want an empty workspace. You can fill the project settings later.

Use a directory prompt

The public architecture prompt directory can start a Project for you. Select Use in CAD Scene on one prompt.

CAD Scene always creates a new Untitled Project for that prompt. It never opens or changes an existing Project. New accounts finish or skip the welcome tour first, then continue into the new Project.

Text-only prompts open Create. Source-assisted prompts open Enhance and still need your own source image. CAD Scene fills and focuses the prompt. It does not select Send, charge credits, or start a render.

If the saved handoff expires, return to the directory and select Use in CAD Scene again.

From setup to first render

The first working loop is Setup, Project, Study, then Render. Setup creates the shared Project context. A Study holds one view or option. Each send adds a render to that Study.

The setup screen is the handoff into this loop. Its choices prepare the shared Project before you open a Study and send.

If setup generation needs more credits, CAD Scene keeps the selected image or written description and opens the available plans and top-ups. After a verified purchase, Continue returns to that setup choice without generating automatically. Select Generate when you are ready.

Workspace map

The workspace keeps one project context around the active study.

• Studies rail: The left rail lists studies. Its collapsed view shows study thumbnails and a New study button.
• Project settings: The icon rail opens Overview, Style, Scene, Lighting, Materials, Entourage, Gallery, and Settings. The Overview tab summarizes the full Composition and Project reference image.
• Feed: The center shows messages and renders from the active study.
• Composer: The floating input card switches between Create, Enhance, and Edit. It also holds model settings, output count, references, and Send.
• Edit and Enhance panel: On larger screens, the right panel holds the source-image chooser and image tools. On smaller screens, those tools appear with the Composer.
• Gallery: The Gallery tab shows finished renders from every study in the project.
• Help menu: The signed-in top bar opens the Help Center, Prompt Examples, or Contact Support. Public pages open in a new tab.

Project settings apply across all studies. Switching studies changes the Feed, not the project's Composition.

Learn the hierarchy in Projects and Studies, Feed, and Gallery.

First render

Create is the shortest first-render path because it needs no source image.

1. Open the sample project or finish one of the new-project setup paths.
2. Select Create in the Composer.
3. Write a clear description of the view you need.
4. Review the model, its available settings, and the output count if needed.
5. Select Send.

Sending requires enough credits for the full request. Each output is charged separately, so increasing the count multiplies the per-image cost. See Quality and cost for the verified model settings and cost breakdown.

Create requires a non-empty prompt. If the project has no study yet, the first send creates one automatically. The new render appears in that study's Feed. It also appears in the project-wide Gallery after completion.

A clear brief still sends in one step. If CAD Scene needs one outcome-changing decision, the Composer asks a short question before the render starts. Answer it to continue automatically, or select Skip and Send Now to render the original prompt.

If you already have a 3D screenshot, use Enhance instead. Use Edit to change marked parts of an image.

Replay the welcome tour

Open Settings, then Onboarding. Select Reset onboarding, confirm, and the welcome tour restarts at step one.

Resetting onboarding does not change your projects. It also leaves the sample project untouched.

For prompt controls, references, slash commands, and keyboard shortcuts, open Composer, slash commands, and keyboard shortcuts.