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SketchUp with Generative AI

Realize Your Vision Faster with Diffusion!

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SketchUp with Generative AI

Visualizing your creative vision has never been easier. With Trimble‘s latest release, SketchUp Diffusion LABS, you can harness the revolutionary power of generative AI within SketchUp to create rendered images in seconds. The future is here, and it’s a more creative, capable version of you!

Genereer snel conceptuele renderingen van zelfs een basis 3D-model met SketchUp Diffusion.
Quickly Generate Conceptual Renderings from Even a Basic 3D Model with SketchUp Diffusion

In your daily workflow, you likely need to convey your ideas quickly and clearly. With seemingly endless design possibilities, you must balance the time spent designing and the time spent creating representative visuals that showcase your best and most creative solutions.

“Luckily, AI can significantly assist you in this process. How? Let us explain!”

SketchUp + AI

AI can expand your creative capacity and unlock new opportunities. At Trimble, the commitment is to drive innovation and make AI accessible, especially where it can positively impact work.

While AI itself doesn’t have a creative vision, it can help sharpen yours. With the brand-new Diffusion from #SketchUpLabs, generating images in SketchUp becomes a breeze. This user-friendly generative AI breathes fresh life into your creative process and boosts your design narrative.

Bring Your Vision to Life

Choose from eight preset styles to define the aesthetics of your generated images.

If you can describe it, you can now visualize it in SketchUp. With a simple text command and a basic model, you can generate photorealistic or stylized images to visualize your specific idea.

Instead of struggling to find something that vaguely resembles your vision and convincing clients that your idea is “just slightly different,” you can now capture your unique creation with greater precision.

Ga snel van conceptschets naar gerenderde ontwerpmogelijkheden.
Move Quickly from Concept Sketch to Rendered Design Options

Need a quick start? Simply shape your concept using one of Diffusion’s preset styles.

Overcome Creative Blocks

Adjustment sliders allow you to fine-tune your image output. Preserve your model’s geometry or let your text commands take the lead.

Feeling uninspired or wanting to explore more possibilities? Just type a brief description of the image you have in mind, sit back, and let AI do the rest. Discover new concepts that may inspire an entirely new direction.

These adjustment sliders give you control over how much influence your prompts have and how strictly your model is followed in the generated images.

For example, if you have a simple massing model and want to generate concepts for the shape and finish of a project, describe what you want the building to look like in a text command. Then experiment with the sliders. Increasing “prompt influence” and lowering “respect model geometry” will make the AI follow your text more closely while adding a twist to your model, potentially revealing new elements that inspire a fresh direction.

These settings also work the other way around. If you’re further along with your model and want to explore aspects like context, lighting, or materials, increase “respect model geometry” to produce images that reflect your exact model with the finishes and context you specify.

Quick Tip: Start with a text prompt to see your ideas come to life before you even model anything.

Align Early in the Process

Quickly explore multiple possibilities and make better decisions with the power of 3D modelling, idea generation, fast visualization, and collaboration tools—all within SketchUp.

Add your generated image as an overlay to your SketchUp model with Add Scene.

When you’re ready to share your initial proposals with clients, stakeholders, or colleagues, use the “Add Scene” feature to save your images as overlays in the SketchUp Viewport. Easily navigable scenes help guide clients and collaborators directly to the heart of your design.

Maintain Creative Control

AI serves as a tool for ideation and production assistance, but the vision remains yours. Ultimately, the input comes from a mix of your model, markups on an iPad, and text commands. The output is defined by selecting the most appropriate styles and settings, and you decide how to share or use the results.

Combine Markup Mode on the iPad with Diffusion to go from sketch to photorealistic concept in seconds.

Watch the video to see how refining prompts can further develop an idea. Save the image as a Scene to model or sketch over it, or share the visuals to spark collaboration. Diffusion stands at the crossroads of creative freedom and enhanced productivity.

Enhance Your Creative Potential

Get started with Diffusion to expand your possibilities and increase your creative capacity while saving time. Get ready to be inspired and impress your clients with how quickly you can achieve clarity and alignment.

Ready to Try Diffusion?
You can find Diffusion for Desktop in the Extension Warehouse. It’s also available as a native tool in the latest versions of SketchUp for iPad and Web.

Diffusion is being released as part of the SketchUp Labs program. It’s free for active Go, Pro, or Studio subscribers for a limited time1, with a free trial included.

Share Your Feedback

Achieved impressive, unexpected, or surprising results? Share how you used Diffusion and what you created with the SketchUp Community or on social media using the hashtag #SketchUpLabs.

  1. 1. Generative AI requires significant computing power. During the Labs phase, subscribers will not incur additional costs. Future pricing changes will be announced at least 30 days in advance. ↩︎
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