Guide

Studio: pictures of your invention

Pictures make a young idea concrete: easier to judge, compare and show. Studio keeps every picture consistent with one approved description of the invention.

Confirm what you are protecting

Studio waits until the invention's profile is confirmed on Intent, because the profile decides what can be pictured. A method, process or substance is never drawn as a made-up gadget. See What you are protecting.

Describe the invention

Fill in the description on the first tab. Its fields follow what you are protecting. It saves as you type and reads the same on every device.

Approve the sheet

Generate the sheet the invention's profile calls for, such as a four-view product sheet, and check it. Making a sheet locks the description as a version. Approving the sheet is the one gate in Studio: every picture after it is drawn from that sheet, so they all show the same invention.

Make pictures

Direct the pictures you want, such as the invention in use or a formal product shot. Look at each result before you keep it; a picture that cannot be selected shows the findings that stop it.

Choose the cover pictures

In the Library, pick one formal picture and one in-use picture. They represent the idea wherever it appears.

References and sets

For a finished set of pictures, build a board of reference images from the scenario's Vault, say what each may influence or must not, and assign it to the shots it should guide.

Changing the invention

A correction that changes the invention asks you to edit the description first, before any picture is made. If you change what you are protecting, earlier pictures stay in the Library, labelled as made for an earlier profile. Nothing is deleted.

Progress

Picture work runs on IPGuru's servers. Studio shows what is running, what failed and anything that needs your attention, with the action that fixes it. Finished pictures stay available even if you cancel the rest.

Allowance

Generating descriptions, sheets and pictures uses your membership's allowance. Reading and editing do not.