AI Lighting Fixtures for SketchUp Pendants, downlights and panels, free
Free. Use your own Anthropic or OpenAI key.
Also from Innerscene: Circadian Lab, a free lighting calculator for room illuminance, melanopic EML, and glare.
Watch how it works
How it works
- 1. Describe it or add a photoType what you want in plain words, with sizes if you know them, or add a photo as a reference. Describe an object or a person.
- 2. The AI builds and checks itThe AI writes an OpenSCAD program for an object, or sets up the character generator for a person. It looks at six rendered views of the result and fixes what is wrong, up to five builds per message.
- 3. Refine and exportThe model opens in the viewer at real size. Ask for changes in the chat, move the sliders, then download it or pick a format from the Export menu.
Why make it with AI here
- Place a specified or custom luminaire in a SketchUp model before the manufacturer's files arrive, at the housing size, trim and drop length you type.
- Fixture parts have names such as Housing, Diffuser and Cable, so you can hide the cables or give the diffuser a glowing material in your renderer.
- A row or grid of fixtures is one component placed many times, so changing one updates them all.
Prompts to try
Click one to open it in the AI panel, then change the sizes to suit.
Getting the fixtures into SketchUp
- Choose For SketchUp (.skp) in the AI panel's Made for picker, or end your request with "for SketchUp".
- Click Download .skp under the version you like.
- In your project, use File > Import and place the fixture on the ceiling or wall.
- Export DWG as well for a reflected ceiling plan, or IFC for a BIM model.
The model is geometry only. SketchUp has no light sources of its own, so add the light in your renderer, such as V-Ray or Enscape, at the diffuser or lamp. For light levels, use the manufacturer's IES file in a lighting calculator such as the free CircadianLab.
Best export formats: SketchUp (.skp), DWG, IFC
Good to know
It models the housing, trim and mounting: there is no photometry, beam angle or light output. Fine detail such as heat sink fins or lamp filaments is simplified.
Cost and privacy
You use your own Anthropic or OpenAI API key. It is stored only in your browser and sent only to that provider, which bills you directly: a model typically costs $0.05 to $0.30 at Standard quality and up to about $1 at Detailed, and Innerscene charges nothing. Your key and prompts are not sent to Innerscene; we record anonymous usage statistics such as the steps used, the model chosen, token counts, a cost estimate and whether a model was made.