Saving Styles in SketchUp – SketchUp Quick Tips
In today’s SketchUp quick tip, we’re going to talk about saving a style to your library for use later.
We’ve talked several times in the past about how styles work in SketchUp. Basically, styles are settings that you can adjust to change the way your model looks. Today, we’re going to talk about how to save a style to a custom location so that you can load it in future models.
This is a model I downloaded from the 3D warehouse – it’s called “Kitchen” by Shinnah.
As you can see, it’s a fairly detailed, decent looking model. What we’re going to do is adjust some of our style settings to get a different look, then save that style.
To start off, we’re going to create a new style by clicking on the “create new style” button in the styles section of our tray. We’ll go ahead and call this style Justin’s Sketch Style.
Now we’ll go in and adjust some of our settings.
I’m going for more of a hand drawn type look, so I’m going to turn the materials off, and adjust the line weight settings, adding some jitter and a bit of extension so that we get that kind of sketchy look. We may even add a bit of fog to liven it up a little bit.
Once I’ve gotten the style the way I want it, I’m going to update the style by clicking on the thumbnail in the upper right corner. This will save my changes to this particular style.
Then, I’m going to find the thumbnail for my style in the “in model” area of the styles section.
Right click on your thumbnail and select “Save as.”
Navigate to the location where you’d like to save your style. I’d recommend creating a folder for all of your different styles.
Once you’ve picked your location, click save to save your style in that location.
Now, whenever you open a new model, you can select that folder, and all the styles in that folder will show up in your thumbnails for quick and easy use!
About Justin Geis
Hi, I'm Justin Geis, and I'm the founder of The SketchUp Essentials. I started using SketchUp as part of my work as a general contractor in 2008. I quickly realized the power of the software and started using it for personal projects. I started The SketchUp Essentials as a place to share easy to follow SketchUp tutorials and tips to help everyone harness the power of 3D Modeling in their lives. When not working with SketchUp, I enjoy playing soccer and spending time with my wife and our two dogs.
