🌕 Turn Images or Video to 3D with the new SketchUp Gaussian Splat extension🌕

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We’re thrilled to finally let another cat out of our bag of innovations: Gaussian Splats!

What are Gaussian Splats you ask?

Imagine taking a few images of an object or a room and magically turning them into a 3D model!

This groundbreaking technology makes it easier than ever to capture the real world and bring it into your SketchUp projects. By pairing this incredible technology with SketchUp’s powerful modeling and visualization tools, we’re opening up a world of possibilities for transforming your workflow.

The new Gaussian Splat Beta extension offers a suite of tools to:

  • :camera_with_flash: Create a splat using images or video
  • :inbox_tray: Import your splats into SketchUp
  • :hammer_and_wrench: Manipulate your Splats using regular SketchUp commands or purpose-built Gaussian Splat tools

This is an early Alpha and testing is being conducted in our Centercode testing program under NDA. If you want to join please use this link to sign up!

Best,
Aris and the SketchUp AI team

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I hope I’m not in breach if I add…
WIndows only. or bootcamp, or parallel. but no mac (yet, I hope :wink: )

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Congrats Aris and Yohann. Great that people can finally get stuck into this. I recon this is going to be a game changer for Sketchup.

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That is correct @ateliernab thx for pointing this out!

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Thanks for this extension!

Do you need an RTX video card for this? Or is it possible with just a GTX?
Thanks!

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It shouldn’t need too high/specific setup but I suggest you to try and send feedback if any issues regarding performances.

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I think he means are the splats trained locally on the GPU (GTX/RTX) or in the cloud

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Thanks both for the answers!
I was referring to the current method, using Postshot, but which requires an RTX card.

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Postshot doesn’t require an RTX card explicitly, it just needs a card that supports Nvidia CC 7.5 - which predates the RTX cards by a few years.
Weirdly GeForce GTX 1650 Ti supports it

Anyways, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t use postshot.

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I have now installed version 0.60 beta and as soon as I start it it gives me the message… RTX.

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Full list of supported cards here
not all RTX :slight_smile:
CUDA GPU Compute Capability | NVIDIA Developer
Either way, you’ve not got a CC 7.5 card from the looks of it.

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:cry:

Need to type more to get the forum to allow me to post.

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Splat generation in Trimble labs is doing remotely so no need of specific setup. Postshot offers great quality GS creation but generally the way to take the pictures and the camera quality are far more crucial for a good GS quality.

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Thank you for the feedback. I would like to be able to edit the image that’s converted into a SKP file, but I don’t think this is possible… I guess the image does not have enough information to be converted into an accurate SKP image.

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no, it’s just not at all what you were asking for, you were mislead :wink: . You were asking for a tool that would automatically make an editable 3d model of your furniture.

Gaussian splats give you a 3d environment based on photos and/or videos. not the same at all…

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Hold up, this would be a FANTASTIC consolidation to my workflows. I’ve been tinkering with Postshot for a while now but my main reason for not going full tilt is because I find photogrammetry-derived point clouds to be my best option. I then bring that into SketchUp with the Scan Essentials plugin and model.

If I could add a GS method to my toolbox I would be a very happy dude.

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Looks great will have to give it a go :slight_smile:

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Another topic I want but can’t participate in…bummer.
Sometimes eating apples just bites.

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If you have access to bootcamp it should work as well. For now that’s the only way unfortunately

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It took me a few days to be able to test this, but on my work PC, that has a GTX 1660, it only takes 7 seconds to load the biggest of the example scenes. It seems to work ok.