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title: "Generating from mockup | Customer's Canvas Hub"
canonical: "https://customerscanvas.com/docs/hub/admin-guide/manage-assets/design/generate-from-mockup/"
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# Generating from mockup

> Learn how to create a blank Customer's Canvas design based on a 3D mockup.

Customer's Canvas allows you to create 3D product mockups. For the created mockups, you can generate a blank design that will fit that mockup dimensions.

In this topic, you will learn how to create a blank design based on a 3D mockup. To learn how to manually specify dimensions and create a blank design based on them, refer to the [Creating a new design](https://customerscanvas.com/docs/hub/admin-guide/manage-assets/design/create-new-design.md) topic.

## Video tutorial

The following video summarizes this article. Feel free to watch it in addition to reading the text below. 

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XjwA3Z8Q4sU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe>

## How to create a blank design from mockup

Before generating such a design, you first need to [create a 3D mockup](https://customerscanvas.com/docs/hub/admin-guide/manage-assets/mockups/create-new-mockup.md) in the **Mockups** asset section. Then follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the **Designs** section in your Customer's Canvas account.
2. Open a destination folder where you want to create a design.
3. Click the **New** button in the top left corner, and then click **Design file**.
4. When the dialog box opens, click the **Generate from mockup** tab.

    ![Create a design file from a mockup.](./images/generate-from-mockup.png)

5. Fill in the design name in the **Name** field.
6. Click in the **Mockup** field.
7. When a dialog box for selecting mockups opens, select the desired mockup in the folder tree and click **Select**.
8. For the selected mockup, you can change the measurement units to verify the design dimensions and the size of the bleed zone.

    ![Selected mockup in the Create design form.](./images/generate-from-selected-mockup.png)

9. Click **Create**.

Design generation can take a long time, for which the form becomes inactive. When it closes, you will see a thumbnail with of the product image.

:::note
You can also create blank designs by specifying their size [manually](https://customerscanvas.com/docs/hub/admin-guide/manage-assets/design/generate-from-mockup.md).

Creating designs from scratch in the Template Editor is great for simple designs. For more complicated templates, you may prefer creating with professional graphic design software, such as [Adobe InDesign](https://customerscanvas.com/docs/hub/admin-guide/manage-assets/design/import-indesign.md) or [Adobe Photoshop](https://customerscanvas.com/docs/hub/admin-guide/manage-assets/design/import-photoshop.md), and importing the files into Customer's Canvas.
:::