I just released version 3.0 of my AI Explorer (Experimental) SketchUp extension. The main change in this version is that I broke out the API endpoint URL as an editable field in the settings. Since several AI services now offer OpenAI-compatible API endpoints, this opens up the extension to other services like Google’s Gemini. All a user has to do is sign up with the different service, get an API key, and then enter the API key, an applicable model name, and the correct URL of the service’s API endpoint in this extension’s settings. See my description for details.
So far, I have tested this with Google’s services, but Anthropic’s or DeepSeek’s services should work equally well.
As a result of this change, I renamed the tool to “AI Explorer (Experimental)” as that seemed more appropriate now. The default settings will still use OpenAI’s services, so that the first steps remain easy.
- Version 3.0 (3/13/2025):
– Renamed to AI Explorer (Experimental)
– Added option to use other OpenAI-compatible services (using the OpenAI API standards), e.g. Google or Anthropic via their API endpoints.
– Minor cleanups