Make a drawing realistic: turn a sketch into a render

Making a drawing realistic used to mean redrawing it: building a 3D model from the sketch, applying materials, setting up lights and rendering. AI does the translation directly. It reads the lines of your drawing — walls, openings, furniture symbols — and renders them as real surfaces with real light, while keeping their position and proportions.

RetailInterior is built for interiors, and retail in particular, so a rectangle on a plan becomes a shelf unit with real thickness, not an extruded outline.

The drawing only needs to be readable, not perfect:

• Hand-drawn floor plans, photographed or scanned.
• CAD or PDF line drawings exported from AutoCAD, Revit, ArchiCAD or SketchUp.
• Quick perspective sketches of a room or a shop.
• Marked-up plans with furniture symbols and labels.

For a plan drawing, use Floor Plan → 3D and choose a cutaway, top-down or eye-level view of the space. For a perspective sketch, use Design a Space: upload the sketch as the base image and describe the materials and mood you want. In both cases you can generate several variants and keep the best one.

Photograph the drawing flat, in even light, so the walls read straight. Use clear, dark lines. Say what the space is — a shoe store, a café, a showroom — and name two or three materials. If one element comes out wrong, mark it and fix just that area instead of regenerating everything.