The first tab “Select” allows you to pick from a collection of preset style configurations. The best way to get a complete picture of your styles is to open the Style Window. If you use a “fast” style while modeling, and then switch to a “pretty” style when you are finished, you can increase the speed of your modeling process tremendously. As you can imagine, the more things you have visible, the more processing power will be required for Sketchup to render your model. When you save a new style, all of these properties get saved.

Modeling – display colors, visible geometry, match photo options Some of these can be accessed in different menus and you may not have even considered them to be part of a style.Įdges – Profiles, Depth Cue, Extension, Endpoints, Jitter, Colorįaces – Default front and back color, Wireframe, Hidden Line, Shaded, Shaded with textures, Monocrome, transparencyīackground – Color, Sky, Ground, transparency Here are a list of properties that can be saved in a style. Styles do not affect the geometry of your model, they only affect how the geometry is visualized. You can choose from a number of styles that have preset properties, or you can define your own and save it as a new style. There are many different properties to a style All of which you can edit. In this post I will discuss what I find to be the best styles to use to increase your speed while modeling.

Once your model is complete, then you can play around with fancy styles to present your completed model. A really easy way to increase the processing power of your computer is to choose a basic style while modeling. When you are in the process of creating your model, you want your model to be as light weight as possible so the computer doesn’t slow you down. And though styles can really add some spice to your model, they can also slow down the processing speed of your computer. It’s the style that makes your model have color, and makes your edges look hand drawn. When you really think about it, your model consists entirely of two things: Edges and faces. Styles are what make your Sketchup model visually pleasing.

Styles for sketchup