Before you start
- What goes in
- A written packaging brief with dimensions and units, plus optional pictures with clear face instructions.
- What comes out
- A proposed structure, dimensions, options and picture placement that you review before applying.
A practical example
A useful starting prompt
“Create a tuck carton for tea, 60 × 40 × 100 mm inside, in carton board. Put the citrus picture on the front and the ingredients artwork on the back. Show a folded 3D preview.” Use your own measured dimensions for a real job.
Step-by-step walkthrough
Open the Assistant panel
Choose Assistant in the editor. Sign in and check the access shown by your account; the assistant is available on eligible paid plans.
Describe the physical package
Name the intended structure or describe the product and closure. Include dimensions in order, units and whether they are inside or outside measurements. State the material if known.
Explain the pictures
Attach the images you want to use and say what each one represents. Name the front, back or other face explicitly when placement matters.
Review the proposal
Check the returned candidate, dimensions, assumptions and picture plan. If several structures are plausible, choose the intended one. A likely interpretation still needs your inspection.
Create or apply, then verify
Use Create design for a new setup or Apply when editing an existing design. Inspect the resulting flat and folded views. Use Undo if the result does not match your intention and refine the request.
Options at a glance
| Control or choice | What it changes | How to use it well |
|---|---|---|
| Structure description | The package family and construction you want. | “Tuck carton for tea” is more useful than “nice box”. Include a known template or style code when available. |
| Dimensions and units | Explicit measurements the proposal can interpret. | Write “60 × 40 × 100 mm inside” rather than three numbers without context. |
| Picture plan | How attached assets are assigned to packaging faces. | Specify each image’s face; inspect any placement the assistant had to infer. |
| Create design / Apply | Commits the reviewed proposal to the project. | Read the card first. The result still requires size, artwork and print checks. |
Detailed control reference
Find the control, understand its effect, and choose it for the job you are making. Available controls depend on the selected structure, object, workspace and output.
Assistant prompt
The package brief
A plain-language brief gives the assistant the structure, dimensions, material, visual style and content you want it to help assemble.
- When it helps most
- Be explicit about which measurements are inside/outside, the units, the actual product and the desired deliverable. Include what is already approved and what may change.
- Impact and trade-offs
- A vague request such as “make a small tea box” leaves physical constraints unspecified. A polished generated design still needs the same structural, artwork, spelling and export review as a manual design.
- Worked example
- “Make a straight tuck-end carton with 60 × 40 × 100 mm inside space, a cream and citrus front, editable GROVE brand text, and no retail barcode until I supply one” gives a more testable brief.
Assistant result and the normal editor controls
Review, revise and inspect generated changes
After a result is applied, inspect it through the same Structure, Layers, Material, Scenes and Checks panels used for manual work.
- When it helps most
- Revise one issue at a time: incorrect size, wrong face, unreadable copy, unsuitable material or poor framing. Use concrete target values where possible.
- Impact and trade-offs
- Generated wording, claims and example identifiers should not be treated as approved product information. Do not accept a mockup merely because it looks finished; verify every requested dimension and all visible content against the brief.
What to include in a good brief
Describe the product, construction, size reference, material, artwork destinations and desired view. If you know film width or cut-off dimensions for a supported flexible package, label those values explicitly; they are different from an assembled box size.
Send follow-up requests that identify the change precisely, such as “keep the size, change the front image” or “show the flat dieline with bleed”. Inspect whether the proposal preserves the parts of the design you wanted to keep.
Treat the proposal as a starting point
The assistant interprets your words and pictures; it cannot measure an unknown product from a photograph or approve a production specification. Confirm dimensions, construction and image placement yourself. Requests and attached pictures are processed by the assistant service, unlike purely local calculations in the standalone tools.
Check your work
- The selected structure matches the intended closure.
- Dimensions have the correct units and inside/outside meaning.
- Attached artwork is assigned to the correct faces.
- The applied change has been inspected in the editor.
Troubleshooting
The suggested structure is wrong
Use a more specific packaging term, select another candidate or choose a template directly and ask for a smaller edit.
The assistant inferred a measurement incorrectly
Label each dimension and its reference explicitly. Check the proposal before applying it.
The panel shows an upgrade or service error
Check the signed-in account and plan. For a service error, retry later or continue using the manual template and design controls.