Start from your own layout
Upload a hand-drawn pathway, workflow, mechanism, or system layout. Abfig uses the sketch as visual guidance, creates a new scientific diagram draft, and lets you regenerate the composition or refine selected regions before export.
Upload a Research Sketch
A real Abfig sketch workflow. The output follows the visual idea while reinterpreting details, styling, and composition.
A rough sketch already contains decisions that text alone may not capture: which component belongs on the left, what connects to what, and where the reader should look next. Abfig analyzes that visual structure together with any optional text guidance, then generates a new raster image that expresses the idea as a scientific diagram.
The model does not preserve every pixel, font, arrow, or label. It may rearrange or redraw elements as it interprets the sketch. Use the result to explore a stronger visual draft, not to digitize an exact technical drawing.
The sketch does not need to look polished. It needs to communicate hierarchy and relationships clearly enough for the modelβand later the authorβto follow.
Represent the main entities with basic shapes. Visual clarity matters more than drawing skill.
Indicate sequence, transport, activation, inhibition, or feedback with arrows whose direction is easy to read.
Name essential entities or stages in a few words. Put detailed definitions and exact values in your text guidance or manuscript.
Separate unrelated mechanisms or results. A focused sketch gives the generated composition a clearer hierarchy.
Use a clear image with the full layout visible. Crop away desk clutter, shadows, and unrelated notes before upload.
Explain the subject, intended flow, important labels, and visual direction. Leave the field blank if the sketch contains enough context.
Compare the draft with the source sketch and your research. If the visual hierarchy is wrong, revise the guidance and regenerate.
Refine the full image or inpaint a selected region, verify every scientific detail, then export RGB PNG or TIFF at the size you need.
Develop a hand-drawn sequence of cells, molecules, treatments, or outcomes into a conceptual mechanism draft.
Turn boxes and arrows for preparation, intervention, measurement, and analysis into a more coherent visual sequence.
Explore a visual overview of device layers, process stages, flows, interfaces, or system components.
Test the composition of a graphical abstract before selecting a journal size and preparing the final export.
A clearer-looking image can still be scientifically wrong. The source sketch and the generated draft both need author review.
Check missing elements, invented labels, changed arrow directions, structures, quantities, and causal relationships.
Abfig supports whole-image regeneration and selected-region refinement. It does not provide independently editable vector objects or layers.
Upload only material you may use, and confirm the current AI-image and disclosure rules for the journal, conference, or institution.
Switch between abstract text and sketch input in the existing generator.
Explore conceptual diagrams for mechanisms, workflows, comparisons, and systems.
Review common information structures and supported journal presets.
Inspect the pixel size and effective print resolution of the exported image.
Upload the sketch, add only the guidance it needs, and review the AI-generated diagram against your research before sharing it.
Upload a Research Sketch