Who it is for
Architects, interior designers, and contractors who want a rough massing model quickly.
AI Connectors · Creative & Design
Trimble SketchUp
Generate SketchUp 3D models from a text description
Overview
What Trimble SketchUp does
The SketchUp connector, published by Trimble, turns a described object or space into a 3D model. The listing covers generation from text prompts and images, a preview inside the conversation, and the option to open the result in SketchUp for manual editing, with further rounds of refinement passing back and forth. Trimble positions it as usable without prior modelling experience, which places it nearer concept sketching than production CAD work. Partner tier applies and documentation is published. Setup means connecting the account first; nothing generates before that.
Tool surface
Three tools are listed and none of them can be named from here: the endpoint returns 401 before it will describe itself, which is expected of a service that generates files against an account.
Availability
Where Trimble SketchUp is listed
Trimble SketchUp is listed in the Claude connectors directory only. Trimble SketchUp has no app under the same domain in the ChatGPT directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them.
The MCP server behind a Claude connector is usually the same server a ChatGPT app would need, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one.
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
Trimble SketchUp publishes 3 tools to Claude, a deliberately narrow surface; only 11.3% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Creative & Design publishes 9, so this one sits 6 tools below its bucket's median, 13th of 17.
It falls in the 1-3 tools band, which holds 16.4% of the Claude directory.
Trimble SketchUp publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- Trimble SketchUp
- Verification
- Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Creative & Design
- Endpoint
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https://api.sketchup.com/mcp/v1/sketchup/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 3 · 1-3 tools band
- Depth rank in Creative & Design
- 13 of 17
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Trimble SketchUp carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.
In the publisher's words
How Trimble SketchUp describes it
The SketchUp connector for Claude turns a conversation into a 3D model. Describe what you want to build — a room addition, a piece of furniture, a site concept — and Claude will generate models for you to open, refine, and share. No modeling experience required to get started. Upon setting up the connector, ask Claude to create a SketchUp model from text prompts, images, or other inputs. Preview models in Claude or open them in SketchUp to evaluate, iterate, or manually modify. Iterate with Claude and SketchUp to refine model versions as desired.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Trimble SketchUp's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Trimble SketchUp, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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