Using Templates

When you start Live Interior 3D for the first time, it opens the Assistant. The Assistant allows you to choose which project to open:

• Template from the built-in collection
• Custom template (user's project saved as a template)
• Any project on your computer
• Blank project

By default, the Assistant opens on start-up. To control this, use the Show Assistant on start-up option in the Miscellaneous tab of the program Preferences dialog.

To open the Assistant at any time, use the File > New From Assistant... menu command (Cmd-Shift-N).

Using Templates

Projects from the Assistant are intended for two purposes.

• When you are learning to use the program, you can use them as samples.
• You can modify a pre-created project (for example, use a template of your apartment to make several variants of furniture arrangement).

Ready-made designs are grouped into categories. In the left part of the Assistant window there is a list of the template categories. The right box shows the preview of templates from the selected category.

To open a template, select its thumbnail and click OK, or just double- click the thumbnail.

To open a project saved on your hard disk, click the Open button in the Assistant. (Or use the File > Open menu when the Assistant is not open.)

To make your own template, open the desired document and use the Save As Template menu command.

Opening a project as a template differs from opening through the File > Open... command. The template will not be overwritten: the program will offer you saving the modified template under another name.