1 pCon.planner and AI coming together to add magic to your project images

Creating renderings and enhancing them by auto-adding people and details to the scene? Turing your drawings into high-quality product presentations? Bringing your ideas to live by trying out different image styles? pCon.planner 8.15 incorporates generative AI image creation so you can let your creativity run wild.

The new feature is available in all three editions of pCon.planner.

1.1 Background

The new AI Image dialog is integrated in pCon.planner 8.15 on the Presentation tab. By connecting pCon.planner to OpenRouter as an external AI service, the dialog provides different options for the creation of generative images and the post-processing of classically rendered images. An external account at openrouter.ai is needed to create images. Billing is also done via OpenRouter. The cost is just a few cents per image, depending on image resolution and complexity of the prompt.

1.2 Connecting pCon.planner to the Rendering Service

On opening the AI Image dialog for the first time, you are prompted to enter an OpenRouter key. This onboarding page provides information on creating an OpenRouter account and a key.

1.3 AI rendering directly in pCon.planner

After entering your OpenRouter key in the dialog, you will get access to all of the AI image rendering features. AI rendering is currently based on Google Nano Banana. This AI model generates stunning visualizations while preserving the fundamentals and details of your drawing.

You can

• create a generative image based on the active viewport
• transfer a rendering from the Image dialog directly to the AI Image interface and refine it there
• upload an image or floor plan from your file system to enhance it with the possibilities AI offers
• enter a prompt without an image

The resulting images are stored together with your DWG file. If you open the file again, the renderings linked to your project become accessible through the AI Image dialog. Your images can also be saved locally. The new dialog is not only available in the drawing view. It can also be used to style your Layout pages by using your current layout as the base for generative image rendering.

1.4 Parameters and Options

1	Parameters
	Model	Select model for AI image generation.
	Resolution	Define image resolution.
	Aspect ratio	Aspect ratio of the image can be kept according to source or altered here.
	Rendering style	Set style for the output image. Original (use render mode from current view) Realistic Sketch Comic
	Lock	Objects from the drawing as well as Camera angle are locked by default. Instruct the AI to preserve the objects and camera angles in the image as much as possible.
	Add objects	Add People and/or Plants to your image.
2	Menu
	Help	Learn more about AI image generation in pCon.planner.
	OpenRouter.ai	Link to OpenRouter page.
	Reset parameters	Reset parameters to default.
	Change API key	Remove key to enter a different OpenRouter key.
3	Image Area
	Use current viewport	The current view on your drawing in the active viewport is used to generate an AI image.
	Upload an image	Upload an image from your local file system or drop a rendering here for post processing.
	Prompt text	Enter a prompt to Modify the image above Create an image from scratch
		Refresh content of image after changing the camera angle in the drawing or reset previous AI operations.
		Clear image from image area, then start a new image generation process.
		Compare original content and AI generated image.
		Download image to your local file system.
4	Gallery
	Gallery	All images generated for this project will appear here. Images will be saved together with the DWG file and will appear here after opening the file again. Unwanted images can be deleted from the gallery by clicking the X at the selected image.

The AI Image dialog does also come with a context menu that is opened by a click on the right mouse button. Its content depends on the area of the dialog that is clicked. For example you can use the context menu to copy the generated image so you can easily paste it into another application.

1.5 Additional information

1. Onboarding page for OpenRouter
2. OpenRouter
3. pCon.planner manual: AI images