Vectorworks’ new AI Visualizer, released as part of the 2024 Update 4, allows you to quickly create multiple iterations of your initial design concept to explore ideas and share different options with clients
As Kesoon Chance, senior industry specialist – interior architecture, explains, “Iterative Design is what happens when the ideas are flowing, and even if communication with your client is efficient, there isn’t a project existing or in planning that hasn’t gone through changes — it’s what’s needed to get the best possible collaboration with the designer and client.”
Vectorworks’ new AI Visualizer allows you to quickly produce an image based on a Vectorworks file and/or text prompts and begin creating different permutations of your project. With these options, you can explore ideas of your own. You can prompt it to explore or suggest different color combinations or shapes. Or you can generate an image that helps your clients realise something they didn’t even know they wanted.
You can also use the feature to create detailed visualizations of a drawing. These capabilities make it a perfect tool for ideating concepts and creating presentations.
How to generate images in the AI Visualizer
With Prompt, you’re able to enter a description of what image you’d like generated. To write a useful prompt, use clear and precise language with a comma between each segment of the prompt.
Generate Similar, as the name suggests, maintains your original image, but you can prompt additional alternations or even set a new view of your 3D model.
The Creativity parameter lets you control how far your new image will deviate from the source image or how the conceptual image is based only on a text prompt.
You can prompt the AI Visualizer with information like:
- Image style: watercolor, pencil sketch, realistic, crayon, photographic
- Style of the objects in the image: modern, brutalist, art deco, or even the name of a well-known designer whose style you want to explore
- Type of project: interior, exterior, art gallery, coffee shop, park, apartment tower
- Colors and materials: red metal, vertical wood siding, glass, sandstone pavers, brick
- Setting or location: meadow, urban, beach, forest, the moon
- Season, weather, time of day: autumn, summer, sunny, fog, night, golden hour
- Lighting conditions: indirect amber lighting, dappled light, soft light, vibrant light, cyberpunk, or light coming through a window
- Style of furniture, plants, and other things that populate the scene: contemporary curved sofa, palm trees, Mission style dining room table
- And many more; this list is not exhaustive. Try it and see what works for your own images
Manipulating these different parameters will provide you with a myriad of options; just take a look:
Pencil sketch AI image
Watercolor AI image
Realistic AI image
Realistic AI image with varying materials
