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Is it realistically possible to generate a production-ready SketchUp model from photos + measurements using AI?
Hi everyone,
I recently got a freelance project, and before accepting the full development, I’ve been asked to do a feasibility study to determine whether the main idea is actually technically achievable.
The client works in carpentry/interior fitting. The basic workflow would be:
* Someone goes to the customer's site and takes several photos of the room/area with a phone.
* They manually take accurate measurements and enter them into a separate file, probably Excel.
* Both the photos and measurements are uploaded to an application.
* The application should understand the existing space and generate a **3D model in/for SketchUp**.
* Eventually, it should also be able to add the new furniture/carpentry element into the scene and use the real measurements for its dimensions.
The measurements are important here: I'm **not expecting AI to accurately determine dimensions just from the photos**. The photos would mainly be used to understand the layout, objects, walls, orientation, etc., while the measurements provided separately would be the source of truth for dimensions.
The part I'm unsure about is the jump from **photos + structured measurements → usable SketchUp geometry**.
I've been looking into using computer vision / multimodal AI to analyze the images, then generating structured scene information that could be passed to SketchUp through its Ruby API or a custom extension.
My main questions are:
1. Is this technically realistic with current AI/computer vision technology?
2. How reliable is AI at reconstructing the geometry/layout of an indoor space from several photos when accurate measurements are also provided separately?
3. Can this realistically produce a **production-ready SketchUp model**, or should I expect AI to only generate an approximation that a human would then need to correct?
i d appreciate any advice and thank you in advance .
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Hi everyone,
I recently got a freelance project, and before accepting the full development, I’ve been asked to do a feasibility study to determine whether the main idea is actually technically achievable.
The client works in carpentry/interior fitting. The basic workflow would be:
* Someone goes to the customer's site and takes several photos of the room/area with a phone.
* They manually take accurate measurements and enter them into a separate file, probably Excel.
* Both the photos and measurements are uploaded to an application.
* The application should understand the existing space and generate a **3D model in/for SketchUp**.
* Eventually, it should also be able to add the new furniture/carpentry element into the scene and use the real measurements for its dimensions.
The measurements are important here: I'm **not expecting AI to accurately determine dimensions just from the photos**. The photos would mainly be used to understand the layout, objects, walls, orientation, etc., while the measurements provided separately would be the source of truth for dimensions.
The part I'm unsure about is the jump from **photos + structured measurements → usable SketchUp geometry**.
I've been looking into using computer vision / multimodal AI to analyze the images, then generating structured scene information that could be passed to SketchUp through its Ruby API or a custom extension.
My main questions are:
1. Is this technically realistic with current AI/computer vision technology?
2. How reliable is AI at reconstructing the geometry/layout of an indoor space from several photos when accurate measurements are also provided separately?
3. Can this realistically produce a **production-ready SketchUp model**, or should I expect AI to only generate an approximation that a human would then need to correct?
i d appreciate any advice and thank you in advance .
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what is reasonable to know?
i'm reading the Debugging The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems, and the books is giving me more questions them answers and I think this is good.
but one of them is bothering me. in the third cap the author says the we need to know about fundamentals of your fields, and that seems obvious but in this moment i'm only a CS student i dont have a job i'm preparing my self for backend.
the fundamentals of backend are obvious but as far i could unintended CS until now(i'm on 3° semester) is that any CS field cary fundamentals so what are those fundamentals? cuz i'm have the felling that if I dont master them I wiill not be able to debug or understand complex problems. the ones that i can put from the top of my head are: logic, discrete math, dsa, computer architecture and operating systems.
PS: sorry for my bad English
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i'm reading the Debugging The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems, and the books is giving me more questions them answers and I think this is good.
but one of them is bothering me. in the third cap the author says the we need to know about fundamentals of your fields, and that seems obvious but in this moment i'm only a CS student i dont have a job i'm preparing my self for backend.
the fundamentals of backend are obvious but as far i could unintended CS until now(i'm on 3° semester) is that any CS field cary fundamentals so what are those fundamentals? cuz i'm have the felling that if I dont master them I wiill not be able to debug or understand complex problems. the ones that i can put from the top of my head are: logic, discrete math, dsa, computer architecture and operating systems.
PS: sorry for my bad English
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IDM Requirements
Hello People, I am currently a computer science student. I have been trying to get into building my own IDM (internet download manager) but i have been finding it hard with where to begin, i am planning on building it in c++ but very few tutorials or guides on how to do that exist out there.
I have tried asking both chat GPT and claude to help me draft a road map but honestly it always looks like they just skip to the final product with no explanation of what goes on in between.
Basically what i am asking for is a list of everything i need to know and understand before i even get into writing one line of code. Thanks!
(Note: I know some will ask why i am trying to build something if i have no idea but thats just how i have always been, i am a very curious individual and i tend to try and make stuff i don't know. Up until a year ago i could not even code a basic calculator in python, but through the same mentality of just doing it i've actually come a very long way lol.)
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Hello People, I am currently a computer science student. I have been trying to get into building my own IDM (internet download manager) but i have been finding it hard with where to begin, i am planning on building it in c++ but very few tutorials or guides on how to do that exist out there.
I have tried asking both chat GPT and claude to help me draft a road map but honestly it always looks like they just skip to the final product with no explanation of what goes on in between.
Basically what i am asking for is a list of everything i need to know and understand before i even get into writing one line of code. Thanks!
(Note: I know some will ask why i am trying to build something if i have no idea but thats just how i have always been, i am a very curious individual and i tend to try and make stuff i don't know. Up until a year ago i could not even code a basic calculator in python, but through the same mentality of just doing it i've actually come a very long way lol.)
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