SketchUp Diffusion: Accelerate Your Vision with Our New AI.

Unveiling SketchUp DiffusionLABS: Easily bring your creative vision into focus. This latest release empowers you to leverage the transformative capabilities of AI within SketchUp, generating rendered images in mere seconds.

Witness the future—a more creative and capable you.

In your daily tasks, there’s often a requirement to swiftly and effectively convey your ideas. Balancing the multitude of design options can be challenging, dividing time between designing and creating compelling images that highlight your most innovative solutions.

Fortunately, AI comes to the rescue. Here’s how.

SketchUp + AI

While AI doesn’t possess its own creative vision, it can enhance and sharpen yours. Recently launched in SketchUpLabs, Diffusion introduces user-friendly generative AI to SketchUp. This provides a unique method for swiftly creating images that fuel your creative process and reinforce your design narrative.

Bring Your Vision into Focus

Quick tip: Get a head start on your preferred aesthetic by selecting one of Diffusion’s preset styles. 

Overcome Creative Blocks

Break free from creative blocks or explore additional possibilities by describing the image you envision. Let AI introduce new concepts based on your input.

Adjustable settings sliders allow you to control the impact of your prompts and the adherence to your model in generated images. For instance, if you have a basic massing model and seek concepts for the project’s form and finish, describe your vision with a text prompt, then experiment with the sliders. Increasing “prompt influence” while decreasing “respect model geometry” closely follows your description but introduces transformative elements to inspire new directions.

Conversely, when delving into details like context, lighting, and materiality, elevate “respect model geometry” to produce images reflecting your precise model with the specified finishes and context.

Quick tip: If it’s still early days, you can jump straight to the text prompt to see your ideas manifest before you even model a thing.

Find Alignment Early

Accelerate decision-making with SketchUp’s comprehensive features for 3D modeling, idea generation, rapid visualization, and collaborative tools.

Easily share your curated set of exploratory images with stakeholders by using “Add Scene” to save them as overlays in the SketchUp viewport.

The user-friendly Scenes feature facilitates seamless navigation, allowing clients and collaborators to delve into the core of your design. Streamline the identification of optimal solutions and expedite project progression.

Maintain Creative Control

AI serves as both an ideation partner and production assistant, yet the creative vision remains under your control. You influence the input through a combination of your model, markups on iPad, and text prompts. The output is determined by your choice of Styles and Settings. Finally, you decide how to utilize or share the results.

Whether refining prompts for idea development, saving images as Scenes for modeling, sketching, or sharing to initiate collaboration, Diffusion resides at the crossroads of creative freedom and heightened productivity.

Dial Up Your Creative Potential

Elevate your capabilities and enhance creative efficiency with Diffusion, saving valuable time. Experience inspiration and impress clients with the speed at which you achieve clarity and alignment.

Ready to explore Diffusion? Find it in the Extension Warehouse for Desktop or access it as a native tool in the latest versions of SketchUp for iPad and Web.

As part of the SketchUp Labs program, Diffusion is released to active Go, Pro, or Studio subscribers for a limited time, with a free trial available.

Note: This article is a re-write originally featured on the Trimble SketchUp website.