The schematic design phase is where the most important design thinking happens: massing strategies are tested, material directions take shape, and the concept that will define the entire project either crystallizes or falls apart. It's also where designers spend a disproportionate amount of time on work that has nothing to do with design: exporting files, waiting on renders, rebuilding models to test a single idea.
The thinking gets interrupted. The momentum gets lost.
This webinar explores how AI-native tools like D5 Lite are giving that time back, and what designers are doing with it. When AI-powered visualization lives directly inside your modeling environment, the SD phase becomes what it was always meant to be: a space for genuine design exploration.
We'll walk through how teams are using real-time path tracing and AI-generated visuals to spend less time managing outputs and more time refining their design.
You'll see how generating multiple concept directions in a single run reshapes client conversations, how full version history means every direction worth exploring actually gets explored, and how the designer's role shifts from production executor to creative decision-maker.
Time
12:00 PM ET丨April 29, 2026
Key Takeaways:
1. Learn how embedding AI-powered visualization directly in your modeling workflow eliminates the export-and-wait cycle, giving you time back to develop stronger concepts.
2. See how generating multiple styled design directions in a single run transforms the SD phase into the iterative, concept-driven process it’s meant to be.
3. Discover how real-time path tracing gives you render quality you can trust for design decisions, even while the model is still evolving.
4. Walk away with a new framework for how AI tools fit into an SD workflow that facilitates, not replaces design judgment.
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