From SketchUp or Revit to a reviewed render

Plyvel works from an image of your design, not the model file. How to export a view from SketchUp or Revit, make it the approved source, and ask for one change.

In the beta today: Ply’s render engine and Vel’s review are still being finished. Until they land, a render in the beta returns your source image unchanged, and Vel is a stand-in reviewer that answers from a fixed script: its decisions there say nothing about the image. Credits there are test credits.

What Plyvel takes from your model

Plyvel works from an image of your design, not from the model file. It does not open SketchUp or Revit files, and there is no plugin for either yet. You export a view as an image, and that image becomes the approved source: the baseline every render of the view is compared with.

  • The file: PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 30 MB, from 16 to 12,000 pixels on each side, and at most 40 megapixels. A PDF or TIFF export is refused, and a refused upload costs nothing.
  • One camera angle per view. A project holds one building or scheme. Each view, such as Front Exterior or Courtyard, has its own approved source and its own renders.
  • The image as you would show it. The camera, the massing and the openings in the export are what a request keeps.

In the app’s Help: How project Views work

From SketchUp

  1. Set up the camera, and save it as a Scene, so that a later export of the same view matches.
  2. Choose File > Export > 2D Graphic.
  3. Pick PNG or JPEG as the export type. In its options, keep Use View Size, or set the width and height in pixels.
  4. Export, then drop the file into your project in Plyvel.

From Revit

  1. Open the 3D view or the camera view you want, with its crop and visual style as you would show them.
  2. Choose File > Export > Images and Animations > Image.
  3. Set the image size in pixels, and choose PNG or JPEG as the format.
  4. Export, then drop the file into your project in Plyvel.

Then: one change, a review and a receipt

With the export as the approved source, ask Ply for one change and say what to keep. Controlled AI rendering for architecture walks through a material change, step by step.

Another camera angle, or a design that has changed in the model, is a new export: add it to the project as a new view. Views can be added and renamed, but not removed yet.

Every completed render gets a signed Render Receipt. Export project builds a ZIP with every file and every receipt, so they can be checked without Plyvel. Export or delete a project.

Updated 18 October 2026.