How Will AI Impact the Future of SketchUp Modeling?
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Lately, I’ve seen a lot of discussion around AI tools in design—especially those that can generate 3D assets, textures, or even complete renders with just a prompt. Some people feel that this could make traditional SketchUp modeling skills less relevant, while others believe AI will only serve as a support tool to speed up workflows.
From my perspective, SketchUp’s strength has always been in its intuitive modeling and community-driven plugins. AI might handle quick concepts or automate repetitive tasks, but I think designers who understand structure, geometry, and visualization will always stay ahead.
Do you see AI as a threat to SketchUp modeling, or as an opportunity to expand what we can create? Curious to hear what the SketchUcation community thinks.
Tags: AI, SketchUp, Modeling, Plugins, Rendering
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@samkorean said in How Will AI Impact the Future of SketchUp Modeling?:
Do you see AI as a threat to SketchUp modeling, or as an opportunity to expand what we can create? Curious to hear what the SketchUcation community thinks.
It will hopefully become a companion during the design and ideation phase. Helping you identify issues and make suggestions.
World will be incredibly boring if it becomes a simple replacement.
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If ai can interrogate the model for errors and remove something like duplicated geometry on the fly, it will do a lot for our workflow while reducing a lot of the stress and memory bloat.
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I can see AI completely take over modelling altogether. I could imagine a time when you would have a pen and pad and you would do a rough sketch with scale and AI will come up with a model and show you the results in perhaps 10 seconds. Then you would perhaps talk to AI to or add and modify the architecture and AI would make refinements to the model. I think threw the sketches and dialogue the model could be rendered in short time. perhaps the whole process may take an hour from concept to final render. Then you could get construction drawings in another half an hour with two agents competing in a similar fashion to the deep fake process and checking each others work. so there you go from idea to construction drawings in half a day. I do not think that is to long a bow to draw pardon the pun.
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