UrbanEyes CAD studio
You design.
Urbanaut masses with you.
Chat with your live Rhino or SketchUp model. Describe a massing, drop a reference, pin a world site. Preview first. You apply. The file stays yours.
Windows · Rhino 8 · SketchUp · first release uploading
Reading the site · editing current massing
Studio · Full studio. Deep construction and iteration.
Hosts
Plug into the tools you already use.
Install once. Urbanaut appears inside Rhino and SketchUp. No file export hop, no copy-paste. Desktop can float beside either host.
Rhino 8
Drag Urbanaut.Rhino.rhp onto Rhino. Run UrbanStart.
SketchUp
Extension Manager → Install from rbz. Urbanaut.SketchUp.rbz.
Overture Maps
World site context from Overture Maps into the live model.
Massing
From a sentence. From a reference. Onto the plot.
Pick or draw a closed parcel as the site boundary. Urbanaut fits options inside it. Attach a photo or a PDF when you have one. It is not a floor-plan-to-furnished-BIM converter, and it does not invent legal FSI.
“Two residential wings frame a garden, stepped terraces, shared pavilion. Stay inside BOUNDARY.”
Reading the site · editing current massing
Urbanaut
Site boundary is layer BOUNDARY: 66.86 × 94.3 m, 3,239 m². Ask for a concept, a massing or a few options and I will iterate inside this boundary.
You
Design from this reference on the selected site. Fit inside the plot.
Edit
Change it with a sentence.
Point at the current massing and describe the change. Urbanaut previews on a layer. You apply or discard. Undo reverts the whole construction. You stay the author.
Drawings
Plans and sections cut from the model. Real curves, not a screenshot.
/drawings cuts a true cross-section through your massing at a level or along a line, the same technique behind Rhino's own Contour command, and places it as editable 2D curves next to the model. Elevations project instead of cut, so they read well for massing and get busy on rich detail. Rhino today; SketchUp is next. No lineweights or sheet setup yet, and every drawing is a draft for review, not an issue-ready sheet.
“Cut a plan at level 2 and a section through the courtyard, then check them against the reference.”
Grasshopper
Ask for a slider, get a slider. The graph bakes into the Rhino document so the fit check and area statement see the result.
Parametric
When the rule is the design, it builds a graph, not a one-off script.
Say the design should stay adjustable and Urbanaut drives Grasshopper directly: it searches real component names, wires the graph, runs the solution, and bakes the result into your Rhino document. Edit a slider afterwards and the model updates.
World site
Pin a place. Import context. Keep the plot yours.
/sitemaps searches a place and brings Overture Maps buildings, roads, terrain and vegetation into the model as context. The teal ring is not the plot. Select a closed parcel as SITE_BOUNDARY.
Simulations
Sun, shadow, solar on the geometry you just built.
/simulate runs locally on the connected model. Optional EPW weather. AI is only used if you ask for a design review of the results. Overlays colour the host, they are not a statutory energy model.
Commands
Type / and keep working.
/masterplan
Concept options on the site
/sitemaps
World site context
/drawings
Plans, sections, elevations
/simulate
Sun, shadow, solar
/selectboundary
The layer that is the plot
/editlayer
Show, hide, recolour, rename
/takeoff
Plot, GFA, coverage, FAR
/render
Concept image of a view
/plan3d and /drawings are guided drafts, not certified BIM or issue-ready sheets. Full command list
Account
Sign in once. Chats follow you.
Urbanaut opens on sign-in, same Google or email as urbaneyes.in. Previous chats load from your account. Sign out on this PC; they are still there when you sign back in.
Get Urbanaut for Windows.
Compiled zip, SHA-256 checked in the browser, served from a private store, not source. You bring your own API keys.
Windows · Rhino 8 · SketchUp
No published build yet.
- 1. Download the zip. No sign-in needed. The hash is checked before it is saved.
- 2. Unzip, run Urbanaut Desktop, and sign in with your UrbanEyes account inside the app.
- 3. Connect Rhino or SketchUp from the Connect pill.
Plans: Free, Pro, Pro+, Studio. Students from €10/mo.