SketchUp guides
How to get AI to work on a SketchUp model, run and write Ruby scripts without being a programmer, and get through the bulk edits SketchUp makes you do by hand. Each guide shows the way to do it in SketchUp first, then where MakeIt4Me can do it for you.
- AI for SketchUp: what each kind of tool can actually doBuilt-in AI, render tools, chatbots that write Ruby and agents that work in your model, side by side.
- SketchUp MCP servers: what they are and how to set one upWhat MCP means for SketchUp, the options that exist and what setup involves.
- How to connect Claude to SketchUpGetting Claude to read and change your open model, and what it is good at once it can.
- Using ChatGPT to write SketchUp Ruby scriptsHow to ask for a script, run it safely and fix it when it fails.
- How to run a Ruby script in SketchUpThe Ruby Console, loading a .rb file and undoing what a script did.
- How to make your own SketchUp extension (.rbz)Turn a script that works into a menu command you can install and share.
- How to make a cut list from a SketchUp modelGenerate Report, OpenCutList and custom lists, and how to model so the counts come out right.
- How to replace a material everywhere in SketchUpSwap one material for another across the whole model, including inside groups and components.
- How to rename components in SketchUp, one or hundredsDefinition names vs instance names, and how to rename many at once.
- How to model from a photo in SketchUpMatch Photo, tracing a plan and blocking out a building from reference pictures.
Checking a model for errors or cleaning one up? Our sister product Lookover has guides on that.