07-848 2005

In your cart

Open the cart to load its items.

View cart

Menu

SketchUp desktopSketchUp

SketchUp AI

SketchUp AI tools for visuals, assets and modelling help.

Last updated 17 July 2026

SketchUp AI provides visual generation, asset generation and modelling help.

desktop-sketchup-ai-example.png

For more information about SketchUp AI, take a look at the following articles:

  • AI Credits - SketchUp’s AI features use AI Credits each time you use them. Each subscription comes with a monthly allotment of credits.
  • AI Assistant – AI Assistant offers two ways to save time and enhance your workflows. With Help, you can ask questions and receive immediate, in-app support. With Generate Object, you can create a 3D asset for your model using an image you provide or a text prompt.
  • AI Render – Combine your model’s active viewport with a text prompt to create a new, photorealistic render, added to your model as a scene. Use one of SketchUp’s preset prompts, or craft your own. You can also use tools that can enhance or alter your output to get just the render you want.
  • SketchUp Connector for Claude – Learn how to generate SketchUp files by having a text conversation in Claude.Ai.
  • SketchUp AI FAQ – Some frequently asked questions about SketchUp's AI capabilities.

3D Printing a Model

Before you print a model on a 3D printer, you need to make sure your 3D printer can understand your model data. Here's a quick overview of how to set up your SketchUp model for 3D printing:

SketchUp desktop

Adding an Environment to a Model

Environments allow you to add 360°panoramic backgrounds and image-based lighting conditions to your SketchUp models. The Environments panel is where you can add and manipulate environments, or import High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) files or OpenEXR files to create a new environment.

SketchUp desktop

Adding Attributes

Attributes make components dynamic by telling SketchUp what to do. You can choose from predefined attributes or create custom attributes:

SketchUp desktop

Adding Premade Components and Dynamic Components

Components in SketchUp turn geometry in a model into reusable entities. For example, most buildings have at least one door and window. Instead of modeling these common objects, you can insert a component that you have already made, or even one made by someone else.Like all geometry in SketchUp, a component is still

SketchUp desktop

Adding Text, Labels, and Dimensions to a Model

In SketchUp, you can add four types of text:

SketchUp desktop

Still need help?

Technical support from our New Zealand team is available to customers with a current Procadsys SketchUp Plus subscription: Pro Plus, Pro Scan Plus, Pro Civil Contractor Plus, Advanced Workflows Plus or Studio Plus. Self-help articles are public.

Contact SketchUp support