Does Sketchup have plans to launch a corresponding MCP？
idk what it is, but I can answer,
no.
unless it does and then you’ll learn about it on the day it is released. because whatever their plans are, they can’t talk about it.
I think It’s like an API that AU can use to operate the software.
it’s one of the other topics of the moment - Microsoft have said that you will need to buy software Licenses for each AI agent you have using their software. 1 Ai = 1 Human.
A pretty complex thing, but to put it simple, it’s that kind of trash in which you burn a few gazillions tons of AI tokens and 342834234 prompts in order to create an half decent model made of boxes and cylinders that you could have done in 2 minutes with your own hands and brain to begin with (at quadruple the quality) and call it “progress” because it’s “AI generated”.
Oh, I see, that.
Well, it’s very important that sketchup jumps on the bandwagon as soon as possible, I’d hate to see them not innovate. innovation is great. it feeds the economy or something 
The real innovation is how we can do everything worse and faster at the expense of people’s livelihoods and the planet.
Clever stuff
It’s so great that people can’t even google things with their own hands and see for them selves if something already exists and how “useful” is that, i guess. 
The real innovation are the friends we have made along the way.
You mean the LLM chat bots people are falling in love with?
It feels like a missed occasion that there are so many people out there who see doing 3d models as a chore that they hope to pass on to AI, when there are so many people who enjoy doing 3d models but can’t find clients / live from it.
when I read that “soooo, you’ll be able to describe a table and AI will make it for you ins sketchup”, first thought I have is “but… but I like making tables myself. why punish me so ?”
Hmmm…in my generation MCP stood for Male Chauvinist Pig!
(not tested 
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I don’t generally like to post my videos here as it feels too…self promotion…y, but Claude rolled out an MCP yesterday that can create SketchUp models.
It’s still pretty rudimentary, but interesting to test
The multimodal capabilities of large language models do not support 3D vision. They can only perform some simple operations and adjust some settings in Sketchup.
@javalitterboy, your point about LLMs being blind to the actual model is the right diagnosis. Most general LLM chat can only generate boilerplate or hand-wave at geometry it can’t see. The community open-source MCPs help here, since they actually point an AI at your session and let it read what’s there. Fine option if you’re comfortable cloning a repo and wiring up your own MCP server.
I also built MakeIt4Me, a paid SketchUp plugin that points Claude at your open SketchUp session and lets it read and modify the model. One aspect I’ve spent time refining is getting visual information to the model so it can make smarter decisions: the plugin captures screenshots of your open model so Claude sees the geometry, not just the Ruby entity definitions. You can also drop reference photos into the conversation for Claude to work toward.
A couple of other differences: defaults are tuned for non-coders so common Ruby pitfalls don’t surface in the prompt loop, and installation is easier, with ongoing support that some community options don’t offer.
Where I’ve found it most useful is the tedious cleanup and prep work in existing models. Deduplicating components, normalizing tag and scene scaffolding, batch-renaming, generating quantity takeoffs, running geometry audits. Not wholesale model generation. AI can do that okay, but most of us want to stay in control of the design.
Short demo: https://youtu.be/eUEaQaZO2m0. FORUM30 for 30% off if useful. Happy to chat more over DM if anyone is curious