Simple AI rendering Addon

[Miha Nahtigal]

After getting tired of the numerous commercial AI rendering services out there, I decided to create my own.

The goal is simplicity. The add-on captures a snapshot of your current 3D view when you click "Capture Current 3D". Simply enter your prompt below the captured image and click Send. Not satisfied with the result or want to make some adjustments? Just enter another prompt, and the AI will continue working on the last generated image.

The add-on is quite flexible and supports multiple AI engines, including Google's Nano Banana (Gemini), BFL Flux, or even your own locally hosted models through Forge (e.g., Stable Diffusion, Flux, and others).

The easiest way to get started is to create an account in Google AI Studio (https://aistudio.google.com/), generate an API key, purchase some credits, paste the API key into the settings dialog, and you're ready to render.

Best of all, the Addon is completely free and open source. The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/malamalca/BIMrender

Contributors are welcome!

Pre-built add-on releases can be found in the Releases subfolder (download the add-on from there).

Enjoy, and please send your feedback.

Operating system used: Windows

[Florin Luca]

Looks great! Any hope for a Mac version, too?

[Miha Nahtigal]

I would like to point out another feature of my Addon.

You can chain renderings. After creating a first render, you can specify additional prompt, which will be used on a rendered image. This is very useful when user does like the produced rendering, but wants to optimize it further.

But the main part in chaining renderings is that you can even specify a part of image (region) that you want to change. AI should than change only the marked area according to your wishes. There might be some quirks, but generally this works great.

  

Let the images speak for themselves:

[Miha Nahtigal]

Yes, there will be a Mac version soon.

[Miha Nahtigal]

Mac version is online. Download the project and browser for addon in Releases folder.

https://github.com/malamalca/BIMrender/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

[Florin Luca]

Thank you! A small issue though. I was able to install, buy credits, etc, but when I launch the Add-on I cannot capture the 3d view, see attached

 

The Capture  Current 3D is not active. Any ideas what am I doing wrong?

[Miha Nahtigal]

Please try downloading Addon again. I've implemented some fixes. Report if  it works for you

[Florin Luca]

For the life of me, I can't figure it out. I got the BIMrender file form Releases/BIMrender.bundle/Contents/MacOS/BIMrender, but it has no extension so I added.bundle and copied it to the Add-on folder. It's not loading 😞

Never mind, I manage to download it! 

[Miha Nahtigal]

Copy entire folder BIMrender.bundle to your desired location (anywhere on disk). Open AC, goto Options->Add On Manager, Click Add button and point it to the BIMrender.bundle bundle.

Or copy entire BIMrender.bundle Archicad 29/Add-Ons folder and restart AC.

Sometimes when using custom Archicad profiles, menu item won't appear. Try applying default profile in Options->Work Environment->Apply Profile->Architectural Profile 29

[Florin Luca]

More news: AI Renderer loads and renders (I tried gemini 3.1 flash lite image and 3.1 flash image) but AC crashed each time on trying to save 😞

[Miha Nahtigal]

Thank you for your input. Could you download latest version and try again?