If you don’t see your new style, click theĭetails arrow shown below, and choose Refresh. Go back to SketchUp and open the “Assorted Styles” collection. Opening “Assorted Styles” and placing my “Splotchy.style” file inside it.Ħ. Way to incorporate a new style into SketchUp is to place it inside an existing style collection folder. It doesn’t really matter where you place the style file SketchUp can read it from anywhere. Within “Styles” you’ll find more subfolders, each representing the collection you saw in SketchUp’s Stylesĥ. Where does a style file need to go? Open your SketchUp installation folder, and find the “Styles” subfolder. When you open this file, you’ll have one file whose extension is. Find a style you like, such as “Splotchy Style” by Dave Richards, and click it to start the download.ģ. On the left side, click “SketchUp Styles 2011.”Ģ. Lot of time ogling the gorgeous images all over the site. This site is a wonderful resource for tutorials, primarilyĪbout rendering and visualization, not so much on using SketchUp itself for modeling.
And there are also styles available for free from other sources, such as SketchUp Artists.ġ. There are a lot of nice styles provided with SketchUp, and of course you can always change any styles or create This one has a watermark - an image surrounding the model that looks like a tabbed frame. and this one is “Stain Edges with Frame” from the “Style Builder Competition Winner” collection. Here’s “Pen Red” from the “Sketchy Edges” collection. It’s fun to explore the other SketchUp styles to see all the various appearances you can get. Shown in the “Blue and Orange” style aren’t applied anywhere. My Porsche example, all of the car’s faces are already assigned specific colors. These are the default face colors, and will only be applied to faces that aren’t already painted. You’ll notice that the various swatches in the “Color Sets” collection show different colors for model faces, bothįront and back. Orange.” With this style, the background color changes to blue, all edges turn orange (yikes!) Click one of the swatches, such as “Blue and Open a style collection such as “Color Sets” shown below. To see how changing the style affects the look of your model, SketchUp has several default styles included. If you do poke around and make changes in the Edit tab, be sure toĦ. Settings: edges, faces, backgrounds, etc. The various properties of a style can be accessed when you click the Edit tab. The name of your model’s style is listed at the top mine is “Training Style” which is part of the What exactly is a SketchUp style? To see what styles are all about, choose Window / Styles to open the Styles The new template will appear the next time you open SketchUp.ĥ. When SketchUp is open, you can change the default template by choosing Help / Welcome to SketchUp. If you don’t see this window, you’ve probably instructed SketchUp to always open with the same template. Templates are selected when you start up SketchUp and see the Welcome to SketchUp window. Style of the template you chose when opening SketchUp - some styles have different background colors, face This is how my model looks, with a white background and a blue sky. When asked if you want to load the model directly into your file, click Yes. For the model you choose, click the “Download Model” link.Ĥ. Model, and the one I picked is indicated below. This opens a 3D Warehouse search page enter whatever search term you want. If your file contains a person standing on the ground near the origin, click the Eraser tool and erase him / her.ģ.
On how to get started, and a description of some basic tools, please read 3DVinci’s Getting Started Guide (PDF):ġ. In particular, it’s important to know how to zoom, rotate, and pan the view. For this project, it helps to have some basic knowledge of Google SketchUp (though detailed instructions are