10.3.1 Enhance with AI

Available with the Following Subscriptions: Premium, Enterprise
Available for the Following Roles: All roles

This guide explains how to use Enhance with AI to export your current view using Google’s image generation technology. This feature leverages Google AI’s image generation model to enhance images directly within cmBuilder. You can choose from pre-written prompt templates or write your own for more creative control.

💡Note: this feature is currently in Beta (testing) while we refine it. Although the AI will generally enhance your image, it may also produce questionable results. While in Beta, the feature is included in Premium and Enterprise subscriptions. In the future we may introduce usage limits or it may become a paid add-on.

This user guide contains the following sections

• Activate Integration: Google Image Generation 
• How to use Enhance with AI
• Tips on customizing a prompt
• User Workshop Video

Activate Integration: Google Image Generation

In order to use Enhance with AI, you must first activate the Google image generation integration. From the homepage, click Company Settings (1), then select Integrations (2). Locate the Google image generation integration and turn it on using the toggle (3).

💡Note: Only Company Admins can enable or disable integrations.

💡 Note: AI features use Google models. Refer to the AI Models Data Usage article for details on how your data is handled.

How to use Enhance with AI

Enhance with AI is available within the Current View image export feature. To use Current View and Enhance with AI, first position your 3D view such that everything you wish to include in the final image is within frame (1). Consider hiding the Scenario Tree (2) to see the full picture. 

💡Note: Resizing the browser window will affect the image aspect ratio. 

1. Click the blue Export/Share button (3 above) in the upper-right corner of a Scenario. From the side sheet that appears click Current View (4 above). Select Enhance with AI from the side sheet on the right. The side sheet will expand to display the Input image, and a prompt field.
    
2. Prompts describe how you want to transform the input image. From the Prompt templates dropdown (1), choose a pre-built template. Click in the Prompt field (2) to modify if needed. Finalizing your prompt then click Generate (3). After a few moments, four variations will appear in the area (4) below the Input image.
   • When you change Prompt templates, the text in the prompt field will instantly update to suit.
   • Select Custom from the dropdown if you want to write your own prompt in the prompt field.

💡Note: Prompts and images are sent to Google for processing.

3. Review the four AI-generated variants.

   • Click on a variant (1) to compare it with the original Input image.

   • When comparing the input image VS AI-generated variants, move the slider (2) left or right.

• Click Expand (3 above) to open a larger preview viewer (4 below). The slider (2) is again available to compare the input image with the selected variant. Use the side buttons to cycle through variants (5). 

4. The AI magic may enhance your image or possibly produce questionable results -which can be modified. Hover over a variant card to display the Regenerate button (1), this function uses the variant as an input and reapplies the prompt to produce a new set of variants, refining the output. You may edit the prompt (2) before clicking Generate (3) to regenerate the images. Click Cancel to select a different variant.

5. When satisfied with the result(s) click the Download button (1) to save the selected variant, or hover your a variant card to display its Download button (2).  

6. When finished, click the Done button (3 above) in the footer to close the Enhance with AI feature. 

Tips on customizing a prompt

1. Ensure you prompt matches what you are working on, otherwise it will try to replace the image.
   • For example: Using a Completed Construction prompt on a half-finished site will either try to add a building, or replace the image entirely.
2. The AI model is particularly effective at adding or removing elements. For example, you can use prompts such as “remove trees around the building.

User Workshop Video