SketchUp Diffusion! AI in SketchUp!!

What? AI imagery generated from inside SketchUp? Yup! Come and get it! Use Stable Diffusion AI to generate imagery using your SketchUp model as a base!

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[neutralmultiverse]

I love this! I'm new to the interior design industry and building my portfolio. This is really helping me, especially when I model a room and get stuck on the ambiance. Normally, I'd spend hours experimenting without much progress. But with Diffusion, I can quickly generate images and draw inspiration from them for my actual renders! For instance, while designing a room, I considered painting a wall a certain color. Running it through Diffusion, it suggested wood paneling for that wall — a creative idea I hadn't thought of. Seeing it visualized gave me the confidence to incorporate that design into my render. This approach is going to significantly enhance my portfolio!

[samueleyong]

its amazing and i love it... more like a quick render tool to kickoff.. keep up the good work

[transom]

Thanks to SketchUp for adding this. It works great. Already used it to present some furniture designs. The client really liked them.

[XYZ-Drafting_and_Designs]

Hi Aron. I've been an autocad user for the past 15 years. Just recently learned Revit in school as well as SU. I have to say I am extremely impressed with SU. Great visuals and user friendly. I think this AI extension is great. I struggled with learing how to create renders for my models. As Architectural Designers we have enough programs to learn. I'm truly excited with this new add on and working towards using SU for my work flow moving forward. I appreciate the weatlh of knowlege your willing to share. The SU community is special and love the support it gives to users. I believe SU will give autodesk a run for it's money. Great review and Thanks.

[devenshah]

Hi Aaron. Thanks for your inputs on diffusion. Diffusion has the potential to catapult SketchUp to greater heights...but, it needs to respect and stay true to materials that have already been applied to a model. I tried it on a couple of scenes and it simply disregards the materials (guess it's just an AI thing!) I agree that it's in a nascent stage and with time it will only improve and shine and probably turn out to be the best extension SketchUp has. Thanks for the informative video, nonetheless.

[Gloubi]

This is a great addition to Sketchup for prototyping and quickly try some options. I have been using Dall-E for testing new ideas, and now it's build-in. Great! I teach Sketchup in an interior design school, and will definitely add this to my lessons. Students are very keen on AI tools, and I try to keep up ;-)

[MVLandscapeArchitecture]

It would be really useful if the output from Diffusion was more than just a scene. For example, it the materials, windows, etc. it applied to a blank gray box building component could actually be applied to that building component and then one could save that component. It would be a quick way to generate multiple building components of different styles to use in SketchUp models.

[DerekGrubb]

A few months ago I tried Veras in SU, and was curiously impressed, despite the limited number of free uses, low-res square-cropped outputs, etc. This Diffusion extension will allow me to 'play' more with AI in SU, but at the moment it's still a curiosity to me, i.e. I can't *yet* see how it'll help my work (unlike Bard, for example), but come back to me in a few months/years and I'll doubtless be embarrassed at my lack of vision.

[LeeL-lp]

Hi Aaron. You did a great job of showing the best way this tool can be used. No AI doesn't have to be scary or take your creativity away. I'm glad to see that it's available in SU now. It's like someone hearing you say I'd like to see such and such. Then (robots are working) how about this? Or this. YOU make the decision on how to use it NOT SU! yeah! Thanks for the great intro and inspiration on how to use this new tool. And thanks to the Sketchup Labs for developing it.

[gregorybrown]

Sketchup is heads up above all other CAD programmatic UI interfacing in the entire industry! Love the ability to integrate this tool with clients to breed new ideation within the SD, and DD phase!! Very Nice. Thank you Sketchup :)

[freyawatts]

Wow, this really changes the game! What a brilliant use of AI tech! Can't wait to try

[kevinddunham]

Project 86! Expecting my snake shirt any day. Thanks for the video.

[ahmad-murery]

I like it as much as I hate it.
I like the amazing result it returns, I hate that it requires to express your thoughts and arrange your words in multiple ways which is a skill I don't have (yet)
anyway, as far as I know AI will generate different images using the same prompt twice, is that true?
Thanks Aaron!

[nickes]

Finally updated to 2023 thinking by now all the bugs should be gone. i was wrong. i spent the last 3 hours setting up everything how i had it in 2023 only to find certain quality of life things that i didn't think you could mess up...and you went out of your way to do so. The one thing i asked you to fix with copy+pasting entity info, you did, thanks. then you went and added 10 other problems to slow down a work flow. example, having a group selected in the outliner and pressing M to move it, or anything hot key to modify said group DOES NOT WORK unless i physically select the group in the model. why? Any hot keys i have set up are over-rided by your hot keys. Whats the point of giving us that option to set up are own hot keys if they aren't gonna work?...when they did before...

Instead of trying to be flashy and all these new features with every update, maybe focus on making the ones you already have work right consistently . AND fix Layout.

[mikecavanaugh]

Agree with Layout comment. If I can’t document my beautiful work quickly I can’t use Sketchup for serious projects. It’s a shame.

[GrantCalder]

Really awesome... but agree with first comment.. Layout needs improving

[mirosa______]

MEU DEUS!!!! ERA TUUUUDO O QUE PRECISAVAMOS....

[VGMProf]

Yo! I found this video looking for information on Diffusion Project 86 shirt! Love it! Long-time Project 86, Stavesacre, Zao, Living Sacrifice, etc. fan here.

[Dindonmasker]

Is there a way to keep the same seed if i want to keep the style of a generation but change the geometry?

[donproctor]

This could be interesting. I do oil painting as a hobby. I could create interesting landscapes and then paint them for original design layouts. what happens if you have applied texture or imported a photo into a surface then use this?