The Assistant

When you start Live Interior 3D for the first time, it opens the Assistant, a collection of pre-designed projects. The Assistant allows you to choose what project to open:

• Project from the built-in collection
  
• Custom template (user’s project saved as a template)
  
• One of recently opened documents
  
• Any project on your computer
  
• Empty 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:

• Learning the program. You can open and change a template to see how the program works.
• Creating new projects. You can modify a pre-designed project to meet your needs, or create a custom template and then use it to make several variations of the furniture arrangement, decoration and so on.

Pre-designed projects are grouped into categories. In the left part of the Assistant window is a list of the template categories. The right box shows the template previews from the selected category.

To open a template, select its thumbnail and click OK, or 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.)

The creation of custom templates is described in Saving Projects.

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