Partner workflowSketchUp design model. Pelicad visual decision-making.

Pelicad x SketchUp

Turn SketchUp models into controlled architectural visuals

SketchUp helps you create and communicate design models quickly. Pelicad turns those models into controlled architectural visuals with real context, multiple perspectives and atmospheric presentation quality.

Visualize your SketchUp model See the workflow

SketchUp gives you the design model. Pelicad turns it into visual decision material.

SketchUp architectural design model visualized in Pelicad within a real urban context.

BeforeAfter

SketchUp model needs manual visual preparationSketchUp model becomes the controlled visual base

Isolated model viewsReal urban context in a textured 3D scene

Rendering setup and scene preparationDirect AI-supported visual scenarios

Slow changes when the design direction shiftsFaster updates from the same planning base

Few polished viewsMultiple visual perspectives for decisions and presentations

Contextual architectural visualization from a SketchUp model

Street-level visualization from the same planning base

Multiple visual scenarios from the same model

Why this matters

SketchUp models need more than isolated model views

Early architectural models often need to convince before a full rendering workflow makes sense.

For architects, a SketchUp model can define the design direction, massing and spatial idea very early. For project developers, it can make planning options easier to compare before expensive detailing begins.

The problem is that an isolated model view is not always enough. Clients, investors, municipalities and internal teams need to understand what the design could become in its real context.

This workflow is built for architectural and real estate projects where a SketchUp model already defines the planning base, but the visual communication still takes too long.

The partner workflow

From SketchUp model to Pelicad visual scenario

Use SketchUp to create the design model. Use Pelicad to turn it into controlled visual communication with context, atmosphere and multiple perspectives.

SketchUp

Create the early design, massing or concept model.

SketchUp

Define the planning base, model geometry and key design direction.

Pelicad

Bring the SketchUp model into a textured 3D environment and keep the geometry controlled.

Pelicad

Generate visual scenarios, perspectives, facade directions and presentation-ready images.

SketchUp provides the design model and planning base.

Pelicad keeps the model, 3D context and AI outputs connected.

One workflow, two reasons to use it

For architects and project developers using SketchUp

For architects

Turn SketchUp concept models into stronger presentation material.

Use Pelicad when your SketchUp model already explains the design, but you need contextual visuals faster than a traditional rendering workflow allows. Create atmospheric views, facade directions and presentation images while keeping the model as the controlled base.

Best forClient presentations, competitions, acquisition, early design reviews and facade studies.

For project developers

Make SketchUp-based planning options easier to evaluate.

Use Pelicad to turn SketchUp massing or concept models into visual scenarios with real surroundings, multiple perspectives and a clearer story for internal decisions, investors and stakeholders.

Best forAcquisition decisions, investor communication, early project alignment and variant comparison.

Use case

Regensburg with

18,500 m2mixed-use site in Regensburg

The goal was to develop and communicate planning variants for a mixed-use project with housing, social housing, commercial use and local retail under high time pressure.

SketchUp supported the early design model and planning base. Pelicad turned the model into controlled visuals in context, making the scenario easier to present, compare and discuss.

ResultFrom SketchUp model to presentation-ready visual scenario

Start from the SketchUp massing or concept model in context.

Select areas and references for controlled visual changes.

Create communication-ready images from the same planning base.

Why Pelicad on top of SketchUp?

SketchUp gives you the model. Pelicad gives you the controlled visual scene.

SketchUp is strong for modelling and design communication. Pelicad adds the visual layer when the model needs to become contextual, atmospheric and easier to decide on.

Real context
Place the SketchUp model in a textured 3D environment instead of showing it as an isolated model.
Multiple perspectives
Create several views from the same controlled planning base.
Detailed AI edits
Adjust facade directions, materials, atmosphere, surroundings and presentation details without rebuilding the model.

Why not just render the SketchUp model?

Rendering is powerful. Early communication often needs speed and flexibility.

SketchUp and its rendering ecosystem are strong when you want to model, document and present a design. But early project communication often changes quickly: the facade direction changes, the atmosphere changes, the audience changes and several perspectives are needed from the same base.

Generic AI can create impressive images, but it often breaks the geometry, context or planning logic. Traditional rendering gives control, but can take time to set up and update.

Pelicad adds a dedicated AI visualization layer on top of your SketchUp model. The geometry stays controlled, the context is real and the images can be edited in detail without restarting the visual workflow.

The visual output remains connected to the SketchUp model and the real site context.

What you can do in Pelicad

Bring your SketchUp model into Pelicad and make it visual in context

Upload the design model

Use the SketchUp model from your architectural workflow.

Place it in real context

Place it in a textured 3D environment for site-specific communication.

Create visual scenarios

Test facade directions, materials, atmosphere, use scenarios and multiple perspectives.

Update the visual story

Keep visual communication aligned when the model or design direction changes.

Visual results

What SketchUp + Pelicad can achieve together

Turn SketchUp design models into contextual project visuals, from early massing and facade studies to atmospheric perspectives for decisions, acquisition and presentations.

SketchUp architectural design model visualized in Pelicad within the real urban context.

Street-level Pelicad visualization with residential facades, balconies, ground-floor activity and trees.

Aerial Pelicad visualization of a mixed-use planning scenario.

Evening aerial Pelicad visualization showing atmosphere, lighting and use of the project.

Final Pelicad visualization created from the controlled SketchUp planning base.

Street-level visualization created from a SketchUp model with active urban surroundings.

Turn your SketchUp model into visual decision material

Bring a current SketchUp model into Pelicad, add the real context and create controlled architectural visuals your audience can decide on.

Visualize your SketchUp model