This SketchUp tutorial will teach you to create custom styles by adjusting edge settings to change the way your model looks.
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Part 1 – Lines and Saving
In this week’s video, we’re going to talk about how to create your own custom style in SketchUp.
I’ve talked a lot about the attributes of existing styles in the past. Now we’re going to create our own.
To start off, click this little button with the plus sign on it. This will create a new style. Name it whatever you’d like. This will be your style.
Now to start off, this will just create a new thumbnail in the “In model” drop-down.
First note – if you want to save your new style, right click on it and click save as, then pick a location. Then you can load this style in future versions of SketchUp.
In addition, if you save your styles in a folder, you can use the “Open or create a collection” option to open all the styles in a given folder.
Now let’s talk about customizing our style. To customize your style, you’re going to look under the “edit” tab. This is where all your different style options are located. If you look at this section, there are 5 boxes right at the bottom of the edit tab – this is where you’re going to change the style options in your model.
The one that looks like a wire frame box is where you edit your edges. In this box, you can change everything from showing edges at all, to changing the thickness of your lines, to adding extensions and endpoints to your lines.
Jitter will render your lines at a slight offset, giving your model a slight hand-sketched look.
Remember that when you start getting a ton of different lines in your model, having most of these turned on will slow your model down.
The drop down at the bottom allows you to adjust how lines are colored. Turn on “by axis to see which lines in your model are drawn along axes.” If the lines aren’t colored, they aren’t drawn straight on an axis.
That’s where I’m going to end today’s video. In the next styles video, we’re going to talk about adjusting the way materials are shown in your model.
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