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!
Don’t waste your money on sketchup even if people claim it is the industry standard - in many many aspects from modeling texturing and rendering blender is significantly better for 0$!!!
@@cekuhnen my skills in sketchup are pretty good, its taken me a year to learn it. so im a little wary of learning new software and scared it is a waste if i learn a whole new software. where do you recommend i start? also blender or 3D StudioMax?
Ye @neutralmultiverse8589 world is getting better. Now You can put in Your portfolio AI generated images. But be careful. I tried diffusion and I can say that it has pretty recognisable style.
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.
hi - everytime i click on diffusion in extension it tell s me its only for subscription, and takes me to download a sketchup completely - whereas i already have a licensed sketchup
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 ;-)
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.
I think so too, materials that are applied needs to be part of the final render, as it will provides more control to the end user, better yet hope there a lasso tool type option where we can select the areas where we can change the materials on any given surface.
Heres how i aproached this limitation. Push it as far as you can with ai prompting, then take into photoshop and use generative Ai to clean it up and replace textures, or even add new dimensional elements. These tools will improve to give more control with time. Meanwhile, for me, this workflow has 100x my process. When I pitched my concepts to stakeholders, the lost their minds seeing how quickly I turned it around. Good times.
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 !!!!! :)
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.
@@SketchUp hi - everytime i click on diffusion in extension it tell s me its only for subscription, and takes me to download a sketchup completely - whereas i already have a licensed sketchup
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.
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!
It is an offering from SketchUp Labs. Pre-beta and not a part of the main SketchUp offering. Availalbe right now to download from Extension Warehouse (link int he description)!
Yes, it is - if you have access to a subscription, then you have access to SketchUp for iPad, and Diffusion is available in there. Check out Aaron’s video on Diffusion in SketchUp for iPad: ua-cam.com/video/uf4467yKL4E/v-deo.htmlsi=6Uk1qNAmfPfXGMmA
can Diffusion give the same render results from different viewpoints of the same model? For example, giving kitchen rendering viewpoints from different angles. Very curious about this.
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.
hi - everytime i click on diffusion in extension it tell s me its only for subscription, and takes me to download a sketchup completely - whereas i already have a licensed sketchup
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.
@@shopprints -Holding shift down to select multiply groups in the Outliner will sometimes erase the name/label you made. -A project started in 2022 can be brought into 2023. Layout projects however..i waited 20 minutes before i went to the task manager and restarted. Because it wouldn't cross over, I had to redesign out company's page to match what we already gave the community we're working with. -Check and see if extensions you are using are compatible with 2023. Another problem with this app as a whole, relying on people to make the program work right and keeping their extensions up to date. And they might not be around next year. -In the middle of typing out a name/label, if autosave goes off, it'll erase the name you were typing. If its something long that has the dimensions in it. As an Examp~saving wheel~[Group] -IF you wanna try the AI thing, you can with older versions, they made it seem like you need the newest version, you don't. when installing the Fusion extension, it asked what year i was using back to 2019 If i remember correctly. -They changed the icons, some are similar and straight forward. others that had a specific colour in it...gone. its all blue on grey with tones of darker blue. -you spend an hour minimum setting it up with your hot keys(that will sometimes work), as well as your Outliner/tabs for work flow. then Extensions. Basically its day one, all over again. Multiply by how many years you've been doing this. I got a new computer this summer, so i had to do this process twice in 6 months. second time took longer with all the quirky little changes. -As much as I complain, I do love this program and it's why i complain. it could be so much better than it is. My sacrificed free time/ life to deal with a buggy program and working till 4am is really getting to me, I guess.
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?
Two different processes. Diffusion is fast and less accurate than V-Ray. Perhaps you could use it to get a bunch of different quick concepts, then pick one and model/render it properly with V-Ray.
If I wanted pretty pictures of the thing I asked for, I could use MidJourney. I asked for plans to build a raised garden box, specifying the height, length, depth, etc. All I got were pictures of gardens that did not even match what I asked for remotely. Oh, well. Nice try, though. Back to the old-fashioned way.
At this point this AI generated images will be helpful for some (lazy) people, who are not going to real rendering. The main issue for int.designers is the certain material, not just "wood", but specific brand and colours...Still very nice images!
Yo! I found this video looking for information on Diffusion but..... Project 86 shirt! Love it! Long-time Project 86, Stavesacre, Zao, Living Sacrifice, etc. fan here.
I don´t like it very much. Cause I´m afraid next step will be that AI creates full production renderings, sometimes later 3d models and all technical Layout-Plans. Nevertheless I hope AI will be not more than a supporting Tool for Cad-Experts in 10 years from now.
Oh. From the title i thought it would generate 3d geometry. I dont get the point. As a designer, why should I let a robot roll the dice? AI image creation is nice in some cases, but in a modeling software, where I model what came up in my head, that is useless. So many things in sketchup where the effort would be more usefull. Layout is just one..
Most image AI tools simply infer from the source image without understanding the full geometry in the model. Does this tool actually use the geometry or simply the visual cues of the current view? That would be a huge differentiator from other tools. Also, if the SketchUp materials were smart in that they communicated with the AI generation that would be huge. Otherwise the AI will be all over the place with materials and finishes.
To clarify, it can be install for free form the Extension Warehouse with the Desktop subscription. Like other extensions, it does not work for SketchUp for web and is not supported on pre-v2021 versions of SU.
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!
Don’t waste your money on sketchup even if people claim it is the industry standard - in many many aspects from modeling texturing and rendering blender is significantly better for 0$!!!
@@cekuhnen my skills in sketchup are pretty good, its taken me a year to learn it. so im a little wary of learning new software and scared it is a waste if i learn a whole new software. where do you recommend i start? also blender or 3D StudioMax?
Ye @neutralmultiverse8589 world is getting better. Now You can put in Your portfolio AI generated images. But be careful. I tried diffusion and I can say that it has pretty recognisable style.
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.
Sketchup is great for woodworkers, I switched from AutoCAD to Sketchup 14 years ago and never looked back.
SketchUp has already toppled AutoCAD in all respects and I wish the entire SketchUp team Godspeed in taking it to the top.
its amazing and i love it... more like a quick render tool to kickoff.. keep up the good work
Thanks to SketchUp for adding this. It works great. Already used it to present some furniture designs. The client really liked them.
hi - everytime i click on diffusion in extension it tell s me its only for subscription, and takes me to download a sketchup completely - whereas i already have a licensed sketchup
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 ;-)
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.
I think so too, materials that are applied needs to be part of the final render, as it will provides more control to the end user, better yet hope there a lasso tool type option where we can select the areas where we can change the materials on any given surface.
Heres how i aproached this limitation. Push it as far as you can with ai prompting, then take into photoshop and use generative Ai to clean it up and replace textures, or even add new dimensional elements.
These tools will improve to give more control with time. Meanwhile, for me, this workflow has 100x my process. When I pitched my concepts to stakeholders, the lost their minds seeing how quickly I turned it around.
Good times.
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 !!!!! :)
We wholeheartedly agree 🙂 Thanks!
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.
Does this work on interior spaces also? If no, can you recommend one? Thanks
Thsi will work on anything you create in SketchUp.
@@SketchUp hi - everytime i click on diffusion in extension it tell s me its only for subscription, and takes me to download a sketchup completely - whereas i already have a licensed sketchup
Wow, this really changes the game! What a brilliant use of AI tech! Can't wait to try
Is there a way to keep the same seed if i want to keep the style of a generation but change the geometry?
Can this be imported back in as a matched photo, so you can trace over some of the photo AI creation to make it part of your model?
Yep! You can export as a PNG to use however you want, including as a matched photo.
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.
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!
Yes. It makes a different 'interpretation' from the same words. That's what makes it good for iterations in early concept work.
@@SketchUp But it also makes it harder to modify little details when the overall look is accepted 🤦♂
it is in beta? will diffusion continue as part of the standard sketchup pro as a free extension?
It is an offering from SketchUp Labs. Pre-beta and not a part of the main SketchUp offering. Availalbe right now to download from Extension Warehouse (link int he description)!
Is Labs available to the iPad user?
Yes, it is - if you have access to a subscription, then you have access to SketchUp for iPad, and Diffusion is available in there. Check out Aaron’s video on Diffusion in SketchUp for iPad: ua-cam.com/video/uf4467yKL4E/v-deo.htmlsi=6Uk1qNAmfPfXGMmA
can Diffusion give the same render results from different viewpoints of the same model? For example, giving kitchen rendering viewpoints from different angles. Very curious about this.
Yes, absolutely! You can save Diffusion renders to Scenes that remember different camera locations.
amazing!
Project 86! Expecting my snake shirt any day. Thanks for the video.
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.
hi - everytime i click on diffusion in extension it tell s me its only for subscription, and takes me to download a sketchup completely - whereas i already have a licensed sketchup
INCRÍVEEEEEEEL! MEU DEUS!!!! ERA TUUUUDO O QUE PRECISAVAMOS....
does this generate floorplans?
No. But AI is advancing pretty quickly so who knows...someday maybe.
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.
oh geeez. I am glad I have not updated...and by your comment I don't think I will be anytime soon. Any more issues you have ran into as of lately?
@@shopprints -Holding shift down to select multiply groups in the Outliner will sometimes erase the name/label you made.
-A project started in 2022 can be brought into 2023. Layout projects however..i waited 20 minutes before i went to the task manager and restarted. Because it wouldn't cross over, I had to redesign out company's page to match what we already gave the community we're working with.
-Check and see if extensions you are using are compatible with 2023. Another problem with this app as a whole, relying on people to make the program work right and keeping their extensions up to date. And they might not be around next year.
-In the middle of typing out a name/label, if autosave goes off, it'll erase the name you were typing. If its something long that has the dimensions in it. As an Examp~saving wheel~[Group]
-IF you wanna try the AI thing, you can with older versions, they made it seem like you need the newest version, you don't. when installing the Fusion extension, it asked what year i was using back to 2019 If i remember correctly.
-They changed the icons, some are similar and straight forward. others that had a specific colour in it...gone. its all blue on grey with tones of darker blue.
-you spend an hour minimum setting it up with your hot keys(that will sometimes work), as well as your Outliner/tabs for work flow. then Extensions. Basically its day one, all over again. Multiply by how many years you've been doing this. I got a new computer this summer, so i had to do this process twice in 6 months. second time took longer with all the quirky little changes.
-As much as I complain, I do love this program and it's why i complain. it could be so much better than it is. My sacrificed free time/ life to deal with a buggy program and working till 4am is really getting to me, I guess.
and what about the image quality? is it 4k or what is the resolution ? thnx men!
As of now, it's around 2000x1000px, depending on your viewport. It's a Labs release, though, so things are always changing. Stay tuned!
Can you pan around the model, or is it just putting an image over that one view?
It's per view. But there's no limit to the number of different still views you can make.
@@SketchUpfor these different views, can you keep them all the same style? As in materials, background, vegetation, etc.
Can I set it in a way it respect my material choice or just geometry?
Why i cant see a Diffusion button? when i open Sketchupi have some errors, any idea?
Diffusion is an extension. Find it here - extensions.sketchup.com/extension/7bfb6011-ee6b-4c16-9cce-9d35a3ad5b8c/sketch-up-diffusion
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?
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.
Hi Aaron. Could you combined this with your watermarks and make anew rendering?
Thanks Aaron, very interesting indeed.
My question is how does this work if you are also using V-ray in your design process?
Two different processes. Diffusion is fast and less accurate than V-Ray. Perhaps you could use it to get a bunch of different quick concepts, then pick one and model/render it properly with V-Ray.
If I wanted pretty pictures of the thing I asked for, I could use MidJourney. I asked for plans to build a raised garden box, specifying the height, length, depth, etc. All I got were pictures of gardens that did not even match what I asked for remotely. Oh, well. Nice try, though. Back to the old-fashioned way.
Is there a way to convert to an STL file to print it?🤔
Cool stuff.. just Awesome
At this point this AI generated images will be helpful for some (lazy) people, who are not going to real rendering. The main issue for int.designers is the certain material, not just "wood", but specific brand and colours...Still very nice images!
Thanks Aaron, that's a good one. 😊😊😊
Can AI do auto 3D modeling? not just limited to 2D image that u can't edit.
Tried about 5 hours and found it very helpful. Even you can use with imported images. Question is How long it will stay as free?
Yo! I found this video looking for information on Diffusion but..... Project 86 shirt! Love it! Long-time Project 86, Stavesacre, Zao, Living Sacrifice, etc. fan here.
Thanks so much! 😀
Really awesome... but agree with first comment.. Layout needs improving
I don´t like it very much. Cause I´m afraid next step will be that AI creates full production renderings, sometimes later 3d models and all technical Layout-Plans. Nevertheless I hope AI will be not more than a supporting Tool for Cad-Experts in 10 years from now.
Oh. From the title i thought it would generate 3d geometry.
I dont get the point. As a designer, why should I let a robot roll the dice?
AI image creation is nice in some cases, but in a modeling software, where I model what came up in my head, that is useless.
So many things in sketchup where the effort would be more usefull. Layout is just one..
Das Ding ist suuuuper!
Most image AI tools simply infer from the source image without understanding the full geometry in the model. Does this tool actually use the geometry or simply the visual cues of the current view?
That would be a huge differentiator from other tools.
Also, if the SketchUp materials were smart in that they communicated with the AI generation that would be huge. Otherwise the AI will be all over the place with materials and finishes.
Interesting AI.. HAL 9000 uses Sketchup too😅
Elle est où la création ?
It would be cool if you could actually keep the model and nit just have an image.
Hi Aaron! how are you?
Please improve audio recording quality.
Can only be done with a new version of sketchup?? Hold my beer ..
very cool!
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this plugin is not free
To clarify, it can be install for free form the Extension Warehouse with the Desktop subscription. Like other extensions, it does not work for SketchUp for web and is not supported on pre-v2021 versions of SU.
@@SketchUp I want the free version with full facilities.
And we want an ice cream bar in the office so we can have free sundaes whenever we want... but somethings we just cannot get for free.
Wow.
IS IT A FREE EXTENTION_? ù
Yes. Link in description.
It doesnt work for me, even the free trial. Well done.
The best place to troubleshoot your issue is our forum: forums.sketchup.com/c/sketchup-labs/sketchup-diffusion/96
diffusion ...let it go free
can some one help me install this for free?
help.sketchup.com/en/extension-warehouse/adding-extensions-sketchup
this is not free
no 3d information, no scale, no depth, no sun no location.... .In 2024 AI still working with 2d images
*_I tried it and it's good, but you have to pay another subscription to be able to use it._* 😂
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