AI construction modelling for SketchUp

Drop in the plans. Basegrid draws the house.

Basegrid connects SketchUp to AI. Hand it a plan set, or just ask, and it models the job with the same custom Basegrid tools you draw with by hand. Slabs, footings, walls, roofs, linings and steel, each one sized, tagged and priced from your own rates.

Releasing Q4 2026. Works with AI assistants, through MCP.

Prompt it or draw it. Either way, it’s built properly.

Basegrid has a full MCP connection, so an AI assistant works directly in your SketchUp model, using the same custom Basegrid tools that sit on your toolbar. Whatever it draws is exactly what you would have drawn by hand.

01
Drop in the plans

Upload a plan set and Basegrid models the job in SketchUp with its own tools. Slabs, footings, walls, roofs and linings, drawn for you.

02
Or just ask

“Make the slab 120 thick.” “Add piers at 1800 centres.” Edit the model in plain English, or grab the tools and do it yourself.

03
Every member tagged

Material, tag and your own cost code follow the tool that drew it, whether that was the AI or you. Nothing drops out of the takeoff.

04
Use it everywhere

Show the client, brief the team, or take it off and quote it. Check Model makes sure nothing’s missing first.

Faster for everyone who draws or prices a house.

Whether you build, design or both, Basegrid takes the slow, repetitive parts out of SketchUp and leaves you the decisions.

Builders
Quote without the estimator.

Drop in the plans, get the takeoff, price it from your own rates. Win the job without paying someone to count it.

Architects and designers
Plans to model, without redrawing.

Turn a plan set into a working SketchUp model, then change it by asking. See what a design move does to the materials while you are still designing.

Anyone in SketchUp
Describe it. It’s drawn.

Slabs, footings, walls, roofs and linings, drawn to size from a sentence. The repetitive modelling goes. The thinking stays yours.

One model. Design it, show it, build it, price it.

Basegrid isn’t a quoting tool bolted onto SketchUp. It makes the model itself smarter, so every job downstream of it gets faster.

DesignTry it three ways before lunch.

Ask for a thicker slab, a bigger footing or piers at new centres. The model changes in front of you, so options stop costing a day each.

PresentClient-ready from the same file.

Switch to the clean architectural view and walk the client through it. No second model, no tidy-up pass.

DocumentBuilt properly, every time.

Every element is sized, tagged and on the right layer, the way your drawing office would do it. Hand it to the team and it makes sense.

QuoteThe takeoff is already done.

Materials come straight from the model, coded and priced from your own price book. Estimating that used to cost a fortune in fees or years of practice.

Your rates. Your codes.

A takeoff that reads like you wrote it.

Load your own price book and cost codes once. From then on every takeoff comes out coded, named and priced exactly the way your business already works.

01Your cost codes, your item names, your supplier’s units.
02Priced from your rates, not someone else’s averages.
03No foreign estimate to pull apart and re-key into your own system.
Your price book
04-120MGP10 90x35 stud$4.85 lm
04-140MGP12 90x45 plate$7.20 lm
06-030Sarking$6.40 m2
09-01010mm plasterboard$9.80 m2
Takeoff, from the modelSample job
04-120MGP10 90x35 stud412 lm$1,998.20
04-140MGP12 90x45 plate96 lm$691.20
06-030Sarking184 m2$1,177.60
09-01010mm plasterboard312 m2$3,057.60
Subtotal$6,924.60
Not just another SketchUp AI connector

A SketchUp MCP lets AI draw shapes. Basegrid draws construction that’s already counted.

Connecting AI to SketchUp gets you geometry. Basegrid starts there and carries on to materials, quantities and the takeoff, in your own model, on your own machine.

A plain SketchUp MCPBasegrid
What the AI drawsRaw geometry: edges, faces and groupsConstruction: slabs, footings, reo, piers, steel, walls, roofs, linings and flashing
What comes outShapesAssemblies with real materials that report their own quantities
Materials and ratesNoneYour own price book, cost codes, materials and takeoff groups
TakeoffSomeone counts it afterwardsRecorded into the takeoff the moment it's drawn
SetupA local server, a port, often a terminalInstall the extension, add the connector to your AI assistant, sign in
SafetyWhatever the script does, happensChecks it's still your model before every change. One Undo per change. Revoke access any time

The same tools, by prompt or by hand.

These are custom Basegrid tools on your SketchUp toolbar. The AI uses exactly the same ones, so its work is indistinguishable from yours, and every piece lands in the takeoff.

Slab
Strip Footing
Starter Bars
Z Bars
Concrete Pier
Structural Steel
Walls
Roofs
Internal Linings
Flashing
Check Model
Releasing Q4 2026

Be first on the grid.

Register your interest and we will let you know the moment Basegrid is ready to install.

Want in before release?We’re taking a small group of builders and designers to beta test Basegrid on real jobs and help shape it.
I work as a

We only email about Basegrid. Privacy policy.