SketchUp

This course covers the AI features Trimble has incorporated into SketchUp Pro — AI rendering, an assistant and prompt engineering — and reaches a frontier that, until now, required programming knowledge: the official SketchUp Pro connection with Claude, awarded at Architosh AIA ‘BEST of SHOW’ 2026, in the EMERGENT TECHNOLOGY category.

With it, you go from a dimensioned floor plan or a photo to a structured 3D model: walls, floor, ceiling, doors and windows — organized by floor, tagged by discipline, with doors and windows as countable components whose schedule is generated within the model itself. All in Portuguese, by answering a short interview. At no point do you write code — the AI writes it.

The course also shows where AI fails and what to use instead. No hype: with real tests, credit costs calculated operation by operation and a decision matrix showing which tool suits each project phase.

And it finishes with 2 hours of live mentoring, where the instructor reviews selected cases from the class — plus a discussion with previews of that Trimble is building for future versions.

There is no official connection tutorial in Portuguese. This course is the first.

Who it is for

Architects, interior designers, designers and students who already use SketchUp Pro every day and want to save time in modeling and presentations. No programming knowledge is required.

What you will be able to do by the end

• Generate a professional presentation image from your model, and retouch it instead of generating everything again
• Write better prompts and spend fewer credits to achieve the image you want
• Go from a photo or a dimensioned floor plan to a structured 3D modelthrough conversation
• Deliver a production-ready model: floor-based hierarchy, discipline tags and countable doors and windows
• Receive an automatic warning when the door you requested does not comply with NBR 9050
• Know exactly what each AI operation costs under your plan — and when AI is not the right answer