The Future of Garden Design: Merging CAD + AI for Unbelievable Results

In this episode, our knowledgeable host takes you through an engaging tutorial on using Vectorworks along with AI enhancement techniques, particularly focusing on garden and architectural design. Jonathan introduces their upcoming Vectorworks garden pack, a collection soon to be available online, promising to bring a fresh perspective to garden projects with its range of symbols and furniture. The seamless integration of AI tools with Vectorworks is another key focus, offering insights into improving the quality of design renderings.

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The host explains the process of using Vectorworks to create viewports and render high-quality images, which can then be exported and enhanced using AI software. They introduce KREA.AI, a favoured AI tool that excels in enhancing elements like people, plants, and skies without altering the core image. This process not only upgrades the realism of renderings but also allows for creative overlays back in Vectorworks. Throughout the episode, the host shares invaluable tips on maximising the potential of both Vectorworks and AI technology, ensuring your design projects stand out.

Timestamp
| 0:00 | Introduction to Vectorworks Video
| 0:36 | Creating Viewports in Vectorworks
| 1:33 | Exporting Images for AI Enhancement
| 2:00 | Overview of KREA AI Software
| 3:19 | AI Image Enhancement in KREA
| 4:40 | Importing Enhanced Images into Vectorworks
| 5:30 | Final Tweaks and Conclusion

Key Takeaways:
– Our new Vectorworks 3D Garden Pack offers a robust selection of symbols and tools for enriching garden and architectural renderings.
– Exporting Vectorworks images and enhancing them with KREA AI can dramatically improve the realism of features like people, plants, and skies.
– You can overlay enhanced images onto the original render in Vectorworks to maintain flexibility and precision in your design updates.
– Techniques such as softening edges and adjusting contrast in Vectorworks can further refine the final presentation of your designs.
– AI technologies in design software can efficiently address shortcomings found in traditional CAD renderings, particularly in visual elements.

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[Music] Hi everybody. Welcome back to another Vet Dwitz video. And today we’re going to be looking at two really interesting aspects of Vetworks. My new Vetworks garden pack, which I’ll be uh selling on the website shortly and sharing with you. Also, how I can use AI to make this look incredible in my renderings. So, here you can see the new garden pack. It’s a really nice collection of some symbols that will look really, really great in your garden projects. Also, some furniture as well and a couple of other things that I’ll be adding in there when you see my next videos. I’ll be modeling up some pergolas for this garden, too. So, I’m going to go ahead to begin with in Vet Works and just create a couple of viewports as my starting process. So, you can see that I’ve just got one sheet at the moment with a really nice image in. Let’s click the update button just to render that full quality image. I’m just going to do sort of checking into my background for my render works background. And I’ll go for something with a bit of cloud there. Okay. So, let’s just blow that up ever so slightly by adjusting the scale as well. So, let’s click update. Remember that Vet Works does a nice little preview, but the full quality render comes when you do the update itself. Okay, fantastic. So, what I’m going to do next is basically export this image out of Vector Works so that we can use AI technology externally to do dramatic enhancement. So, I’m actually going to kind of export using a marquee and let’s go for a fairly high level of quality. And basically, let’s just go for it and click save. So, we’ll save this image where it needs to be. I’m just going to check my pixel dimensions and kind of round those up to say 3,000. That’s pretty good because using the AI technology, I’ll be able to upscale the image anyway, which is very, very cool. Okay, so now I’m going to go over to my favorite enhancer that I use personally. This is called Crea. You may have seen I’ve done this uh with a few other videos as well. Now, Crea is a really amazing um system. It has a lot of options here. Basically, the one that I really want to focus on today for you is just how we can just enhance the image. Okay, so here we are. We’re just starting the process. Just going to load in that PNG file that I just exported directly from Vetworks. You can see it just takes a few seconds to upload into the enhancing software. And then what will happen is over the right side we’ll get some options. So the two things that we can do here, not only we are we can uh look at the kind of prompt which it generates which is a really nice aspect of the AI but we can also adjust things like the AI strength clarity and other things as well. Okay, so I’m just actually going to paste in the prompt that it gave me and you can see it’s actually done a pretty good job at basically reading what that image was all about. So that’s actually quite fun in itself. And sometimes I use this back in Vector Works with the AI visualizer to also create some fun images. Okay, so meanwhile uh using Crea you can see that we’re just in the queue at the moment and the video or the image rather is just updating and enhancing now I’ve been using this AI technology for a little while and the things that I find it’s very very good for are the things that actually CAD software is not as good for things like enhancing the people the trees the plants the grass skies those kind of objects and one thing I really like about Crea is it doesn’t actually change the base image too much either. Um, so what I thought I’d do is just try the AI visualizer in Vet Works to see how that works while I’m actually running the Crea. And don’t forget that if you haven’t tried the AI visualizer, check out some of my other videos on this subject. It is pretty astounding what it can do. Okay, so I think Crea’s going to be ready now. So let’s jump over to our browser. Here we go. So now we’ve got this very nice little slider that I can drag back and forward to look at the before and after. So when you look at the enhancement of the creator image, you’ll see that the people in particular and the plants and the grass, all these things are way more realistic. So now I can basically just download that image and let me show you the final couple of little tricks in Vector Works that I think you’ll absolutely love. So as I say, you can play around with those settings in Crea. Let’s go ahead and just download the image. So, little button down in the corner there. Just click on that and that will download your image perfectly as a PNG file. And then watch this. Here’s the little trick. We’ll go back to Vet Works. And basically, we’ll drag and drop in the file from Crea that we just generated. We’ll kind of overlay it onto the Vetworks image. Okay. So, we’re going to import that as an image file. Let’s go for my downloads. Here’s my high resolution image. And let’s just bring this in. You can see it’s pretty good quality. Let’s just stretch this down and snap it to the page and overlay these two images. So, with a bit of precision, we can get those completely overlaid hopefully so they’re sort of right on top of each other. I think that’s it. Just like stretch that image there. And let’s just center it up as well. Good little tip here is to snap onto the center and just drop that and snap onto the page center. Fantastic. Okay, so here is our create image now overlaid in vector. And I think you’ll agree this looks wonderful. So a final couple of tweaks I like to make in Vet Twix are using the image effects button. Now this means that we can actually do things like enhance things like the contrast. Also I really like the uh soften edges feature here which allows me just to soften the edges. Now a great little tip here is make sure you do this on the base image as well as the cre image as well. So I’ve just cut the cre image. I’m just softening the base render from Vector Works. And now I can paste the Create image on top. And you can see the two things overlaid. Sometimes I use this technique to create things like sketches and watercolors by introducing some opacity into the top image as well. But this means that um I’ve got the Create enhanced image. If the model changes significantly, I can just delete that create image and basically I’ve got the viewport underneath which will update of course. So, I do hope you’ve enjoyed this quick video showing you how to do garden design using my new garden pack in Vet Works and enhance those wonderful images using Crea AI software. Well, thanks for watching everybody. I’ll look forward to seeing you in the next video. I’ll see you soon. [Music] [Music]