Chat (Beta)

The AI chat panel is available in every project. In a new project, the panel opens automatically with start points such as "Define a space program" and "Create your first building." Tell the assistant what you want in plain language. The assistant can then act directly in your model.

Best practices:

The AI gives better results when you give it more context. "Give me a space program for an office supporting 350 people" gives a better result than "I'm making an office".
Attach files to give the assistant more context.
You can undo all the changes that the assistant makes. Push Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z, as you do for your own edits.
Queue follow-ups while the AI works. You don't need to wait for a reply to finish. Type your next message and press Enter; it waits above the input and sends when the current reply finishes. Queued messages send in order, and each one keeps the selection you had when you wrote it. To change the last queued message, press ↑ in the empty input. To drop one, click its ×. If the reply ends in an error or the chat is full, or you close the panel or start a New chat, Hypar puts your queued messages back in the input instead of sending them.
Hypar gives a warning when a chat becomes full. Then use Summarize & new to move the context into a new chat.
Always make sure that the results are correct. The AI can make mistakes, even when your prompt is detailed.

What the AI chat can do

Task	Proficiency	Notes
Ask about Hypar	High	The AI can also operate the interface directly. It can show you how to do a task, or do the task for you.
Create space programs	High	The results are usually incomplete, but the general direction is correct. If your prompt is not specific, the AI usually asks you questions before it makes a space program.
Count and quantify	High	The AI answers unclear questions well. For example, it maps "Count all the chairs in the meeting rooms" to the different space names that can be in that category.
Create analytical views	High	Specific prompts work well. For example, "Highlight all the rooms above 200 sf".
Edit my model	Medium	Some prompts work correctly each time. For example, "Change all the meeting rooms to green".
"Furnish all the meeting rooms" works most of the time, but the results are not fully predictable. "Please place doors and windows in all the rooms" usually works.
Dimension	Medium	"Dimension the 1st floor plan" works well for gross dimensions.
Read annotations	Medium	The assistant can read the color and length of lines and arrows, so it can answer questions like "how long is this path?" or find every arrow of a given color.
Lay out rooms	Low	The AI doesn't lay out a whole plan or fill a floor for you. Ask it to place your program and it inserts every space you still need in one step, beside the building, so you can arrange them yourself. It can still place a few named rooms in a spot you describe. Asking for a stair, elevator, or shaft places it against a corridor; Hypar may shift it slightly along that corridor to find room.

Layout suggestions

Hypar gives suggestions for furnished layouts for your spaces.

Each suggestion shows the desk, seat, and bed counts, if available, before you accept it.
Select Expand space to make the space larger for the layout. Or select Fit to space to change the layout to the current dimensions of the space.
Select Accept suggestion to keep the layout. If you do not want the layout, dismiss the suggestion.

Use suggestions at the blocking stage. Look through the layout suggestions to make sure that a room is large enough for what you need. For example, "can this meeting room really seat 14?" Do this before you commit to the plan.

Names control the suggestions. When you accept a layout, Hypar gives the space the name of that layout. This also operates in the opposite direction. Change the name of a space to "Exam Room" or "Meeting", and related layouts appear.

Suggestions change with the size of the space. Make a meeting room larger, and new, larger layouts appear. Suggestions also learn from you. Rooms that you lay out yourself, or paste in from a library project, become suggestions later. If you change the desk and the chair, Hypar builds new desk suggestions around your choice.

Desk layouts. Give a space the name "Open Office" to get desk suggestions. Then select all the desks with the multi-select tool, or hold Shift and draw a box around them. Set the exact back-to-back spacing and aisle spacing. Type the dimensions, or drag the dotted-line handle.