Getting started and workspace map
Set up your first CAD Scene project, learn the workspace, and send a first render.
Updated Jul 12, 2026 · 3 min read
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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:
- Start from an image uploads a Project reference image and generates the five Composition fields.
- Describe your project turns a short description into those fields.
- Browse presets applies a built-in or saved Preset.
Choose Skip for now if you want an empty workspace. You can fill the project settings later.
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 Project, Style, Scene, Lighting, Materials, Entourage, Settings, and Gallery. The Project 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, quality, 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.
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.
- Open the sample project or finish one of the new-project setup paths.
- Select Create in the Composer.
- Write a clear description of the view you need.
- Review the model, quality, and output count if needed.
- 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 and quality 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.
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.