SketchUp x GenAI: Realize Your Vision Faster With Diffusion

Bringing your creative vision into focus has never been easier. Trimble’s latest release, SketchUp Diffusion^LABS, lets you harness the transformational power of AI within SketchUp to create rendered images in seconds. The future is here, and it looks like a more creative, more capable you.

In your day-to-day, you likely need to quickly and clearly communicate your ideas. With seemingly infinite design possibilities, we face a balancing act between time spent designing and time spent creating representative images that showcase your best, most creative solutions.

Luckily, AI can help. Here’s how.

SketchUp + AI

AI has the power to extend your creative capacity and unlock new potential. Trimble is committed to driving innovation and making AI accessible where the potential to transform work for the better exists.

While AI doesn’t have a creative vision of its own, it can help you focus yours. Diffusion, just released in #SketchUpLabs, brings easy-to-use generative AI into SketchUp, offering a novel way to quickly generate images that inspire your creative process and support your design narrative.

Bring your vision into focus

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

If you can describe it, you can now see it in SketchUp. With a text prompt and a simple model, you can generate photorealistic or stylized images to demonstrate your distinct idea.  Instead of searching for something similar to what you envision and trying to convey to clients how your concept is “close but a little different,” you can now more precisely capture your unique creation.

Move quickly from concept sketch to final space. Use the navigation arrows to view design concepts created with SketchUp Diffusion.

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

Overcome Creative Blocks

If you’re feeling a little stuck or are interested in exploring more possibilities, find inspiration by typing a description of the image you’d like to see. Sit back and let AI put new concepts in front of you.

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.

Maintain Creative Control

We see AI as an ideation partner and production assistant, but the vision is still your domain. Ultimately, you control the input with any combination of your model, markups on iPad, and text prompts. You determine the output by selecting the most appropriate Styles and Settings. Lastly, you choose how to share or use the results.

Dial up your creative potential

Get started with Diffusion to extend your capabilities and boost your creative capacity while saving yourself time. Prepare to be inspired and delight your clients with how fast you can achieve clarity and alignment.

Ready to try Diffusion? If you’re looking for Diffusion on Desktop, find it in the Extension Warehouse. You can access it 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 available to active Go, Pro, or Studio subscribers free for a limited time* and with a free trial.