Program needs to be true to our finish selections. wood is wood and metal is metal. I am a product designer. System is completely distorting my work in shape and finish… please
What are you talking about? Share a SketchUp model that illustrates what you are referring to.
What operating system are you using? “2025” is NOT an operating system. What graphics card? NA is not a valid answer.
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And please… be more polite to those who pay generous amounts of money to use your program yearly…
There’s nothing there.
It’s not my program and you didn’t pay me anything. I wasn’t being rude to you. I was trying to get useful information in an attempt to help you. Nevermind. I won’t bother now.
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This is a user forum. There are SKP employees that drop in, but we primarily help each other.
I have no idea what you need help with after reading the first post.
Share a model or screenshots of what you don’t feel is working right.
You aren’t by chance trying to use SketchUp Diffusion?
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Again, what are you talking about ?
Your first post explains nothing useful to someone trying to help you.
Your user-profile is completed incorrectly - what is your Operating system [computer-type], and what is your Graphics Card - these are both very important things needed if we formulate an answer to help you.
Picking apart your first post… Are you saying that what you draw isn’t accurate ? This might mean that you need to visit your Model’s Info > Units and set them up appropriately - unchecking Length-snapping etc. If you learn to draw accurately it will work. Or is it the materials are not as expected ? As bmike says, If you use Diffusion the material results can be somewhat random - using the Materials browser gives you accurate control.
We need some help from you before we can help you further…
Thank you. I love SketchUp and have been using it for over 15 years but I have never used Diffusion before. I am trying to create realistic images of my product so I can include in my new website.
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You need to share some more information. And why do you keep trying to add a PowerPoint file to this conversation?
Do you know you can make your own materials?
If you need photorealistic renders you’ll need to use a plugin like VRay or Enscape.
ok. thank you for your input. I have been using SketchUp for 15 years but my computer systems is limited. Diffusion is new to me.
I believe I have a windows 10 program. I do not know what my Graphics card is.
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The power point presentation was to show you where my drawing started and what I got via Difussion. I would love to use Difussion if it can be true to my ideas and not creating facetious versions of it. I am checking my computer ato see if I can figure out what my graphics card is. I have never even question a graphics card in my computer
save your powerpoint as a PDF file and attach it here
That is not what Diffusion is for - it is not designed to make things exactly how you want them. You will need to learn a rendering plugin - Enscape, VRay, and many others.
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SketchUp Diffusion helps you combine an active model’s viewport with a text prompt, creating a new, AI-generated image.
I suspect that @bmike is on the money: you may have misunderstood what Diffusion is and what it is meant for. It gives you AI-generated variations on your model view based on the text prompts you provide. It is intended to help you find inspiration and new ideas. You would be better thinking of it as a robotic Photoshop that tweaks images than a renderer that produces them.
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hi.
I see you’re answering directly by email. it causes your attached documents not to show up here.
the best way to use this forum is to go directly on it.
for optimal viewing, also save your powerpoint as a pdf.
That’s your processor.
Let’s assume it’s Windows 10 for now…
To find your Graphics Card details in SketchUp open Window > Preference > Graphics and the available/used GPU is shown there…
The Graphics Engine can be set to the ‘new’ type or ‘classic’.
If your issue is with appearance of wood/metal etc then you need to use Materials/textures effectively. Diffusion is not a rendering solution. There are other rendering programs available to you…
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