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Use the assistant

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The assistant uses AI credit. To see the price and add credit, read Check what AI help costs and top up credit. To learn what the assistant can and cannot do, read How the assistant works.

Open the assistant panel#

  1. Click ◀ AI at the right edge of the window.
  2. To close the panel again, click ▶.

If your balance is too low for a request, the panel is closed when the app opens. You can still open it.

Ask the assistant#

  1. Type your request in the text box at the bottom of the panel.
  2. Press Enter, or click Send.

To start a new line in your message, press Shift+Enter. While the request runs, the panel shows what the assistant does, the time and the number of actions. Each change appears in the model and in the list of actions.

If the panel is empty, it shows example requests. For example: "Create an 800 mm wide, 400 mm deep, 18 mm thick plywood panel."

Tell the assistant which parts you mean#

The components that you select are sent with your next message. They show as chips above the text box.

  1. Select the components in the model or in the Model list.
  2. To add a component by name, type @ and then the first letters of its name.
  3. Use the arrow keys to pick a component.
  4. Press Enter.
  5. To remove a chip, click its ×.

To stop the assistant from changing anything else, select Only change these. The assistant can still read the whole design.

Attach images#

You can send JPEG, PNG and WebP images with a message, for example a sketch or a photo. You can send up to 4 images in one message.

Do one of these:

  • Paste an image into the text box.
  • Drag an image file onto the bottom of the panel.
  • Click 📎 and select the image files.

To remove an attached image, click the × on its thumbnail.

See the videos and pictures that the assistant makes#

When the assistant makes an AI video, restyles the view or tries another material, the result shows in the conversation. Below it, you can read the engine, the length of a video and what the result cost.

  • To play a video, click ▶ on the clip.
  • To see a picture at full size, click it. To close it, click it again or press Esc.
  • To save the result, click Download.
  • To see the result in its panel, click Open in Video panel or Open in Restyle panel.

The conversation keeps a link to each result, not the video or the picture. The project keeps your last 4 videos and 6 pictures in this browser. An older result shows No longer kept.

To make these yourself, read Make an AI video and Restyle a view with AI.

Stop a request#

  1. While the request runs, click Stop.

The changes that the assistant already made stay in the design. To remove them, undo the last request.

If a request stops with an error, click Retry to continue from the step that failed. After many steps, the assistant pauses so that you can examine the design. Click Continue to let it work on.

Undo the last request#

  1. Click Undo last request.

This undoes every change that the assistant made for your last message. The panel tells you how many changes it undid. You can also undo the changes one at a time with ↶ (Undo) in the toolbar, as for your own changes.

Change a message and run it again#

  1. Click Edit on one of your messages.
  2. Change the text.
  3. Click Save and re-run.
  4. Click OK in the confirmation box.

This undoes the design changes that the assistant made since that message. It also removes the conversation after that message.

Clear the conversation#

Each project has its own conversation. A long conversation costs more, because each request sends the conversation again.

  1. Click New chat.
  2. Click OK in the confirmation box.

This deletes the conversation of this project. You cannot get it back. Your design and the selected model do not change.

Choose the model and the effort#

The two lists at the top of the panel set the AI model and the reasoning effort.

  1. Select a model in the first list.
  2. Select an effort in the second list: low, medium, high, xhigh or max.

A higher effort is slower and more thorough, and it uses more tokens, so it costs more. The line below the lists shows the price of the selected model. Click pricing to see the price of each model. KerfCraft remembers your model and effort for the next time.

Rate a reply#

Below the last reply of a request, click Good reply or Bad reply. KerfCraft gets the rating, but not the text of the conversation.