Changing the style in SketchUp - SketchUp Pro Tutorial

- [Lecturer] Changing the style of your model is a great way to get creative with your presentations. To change the style, we'll need to access the Style panel. On a Mac, that's going to be under Window, Styles. And Windows users, you'll find that in your default tray. I currently have my in model folder showing. If yours isn't showing, you can click on the home icon. And it's a pretty short list right now because this is the only style that I'm using currently in my model and it's linked with my scene here. Be sure to check out the scenes lesson because the scenes are pretty important to lock in those styles and return to them quickly. Let's explore some of the preloaded styles in our folders. Use the dropdown menu and let's head over to Default Styles. Now, as you scroll, you'll see these thumbnails. If you're not seeing thumbnails, you'll want to use the flyout and move it from either List View or Small Thumbnails, and let's look at them together as Large Thumbnails. Now, some of these have a green clock and some of them don't. The green clock means that it is a fast modeling style, meaning that when you're working on it and navigating with the zoom and the pan, orbit, it's not going to feel laggy. It's going to be a lot faster. So if you find that your model is running slowly as you navigate, be sure to switch it over to a fast style to help run it more quickly. The other styles are great for presentation, but not as much for working on it. So you can go ahead and click on a few of these thumbnails to try this on. This one's a wire frame, doesn't show the faces. Here we have a hidden line style. We've got shaded, shaded with textures, which is going to look more familiar if you've taken other lessons in this course. We also have x-ray and so on. So go ahead and click on a few of these thumbnails. Then let's head over to our Sketchy Edges. Click on a few of these thumbnails and you'll quickly notice that these could be really fun for presentation, but not so much for active modeling. And none of these have a green clock because they just run a lot more slowly as you orbit. SketchUp has to render these edges in this style, and it just takes a bit longer, but really fun for presentation. Let's head over to Ambient Occlusion and click on a few of these thumbnails. And you'll notice that there is a bit of shading in the corners of your model, and that's a fairly new feature for SketchUp and it just really adds a bit of realism and it's a pretty fun style to add to your presentations. Click back on the home icon. And now you'll notice that our in model styles list is quite long because I have clicked on a lot of these thumbnails. So SketchUp retains the styles that you used in your in model list for you to back to quickly, but it's a good idea to keep this list fairly short so that you can go back to styles that you're using quickly and so that your file size stays low. To purge this list, you can use this flyout on the right and choose Purge unused. And now I only have two thumbnails, the one that I'm currently using and the one that is linked to this scene. So let's click back on this scene perspective. Windows users, you'll find it on the left here. And now if I purge this once more, Purge unused, it goes right back to just this one like we started. Let's go to Edit. These icons here at the top edit the different features of your model. So this first one that looks like a wire frame, edits the edges, we'll come back to it. This is our faces, this is the environment, the background. We've got watermark. We're going to skip over this one in this lesson because this is more of a business specific practice. This is if you would like to have like a logo or something in the corner of your drawing. And then we have the modeling section. And this section we will come back to when we talk about section planes. So let's focus on these first three icons here, our edges. I like to check our extension here to add a bit of extension lines and make it really more of a vintage architectural drawing. So you can see that when I bump that number up and I overrode that default three, let's bump it up even higher, so that's a nine, that's just a fun feature to add a little bit of creative flare to our drawing. To lock in this change, I can click on the thumbnail here that has these circular arrows, and now that change is linked with our scene after I hit that Update button. In this area, we can also change the color of the edges. So I have it currently at all same. And then I'll click on this color swatch here. I can change them over to a mocha for a CPL look or even just a lighter gray so that they aren't as overpowering as the full contrast. I like to do this and close out of our colors panel. Again, once I've made that update, if I'd like to lock it in, I can click on this Update icon. And so if I were to zoom in or make any other changes, like add all of these, as soon as I click back on my perspective scene, it goes back into that last locked in change here as well as the previous camera view that was locked into this scene. Again, please be sure to check out the scenes lesson. There's lots of good information about how to lock in information using scenes. The next icon are the faces. So front color, back color, we've got white and blue. That is the default for many SketchUp templates, and that just means as we're drawing and creating faces that the front face is going to be white, and if we look on the inside, the back face is blue. We'll see that again in a moment. We can also change these if you prefer to see a different color than blue. Sometimes I like to change it to a black or even a bright color so that I can really see when I'm using back faces as opposed to front faces. All right, let's look at the styles here. Click on the first one,, that's our wire frame. Second one, we've got hidden line. Third one, again, this is just shaded. We don't have textures, just the shade of the textures. This one's going to look familiar. This one is shaded with textures. We've got monochrome. So you can see these are the front faces, and I changed the color of the back face. This just means that the back face is facing out and the front face is facing out on these areas. So if I were to change the back face to a bright color like this, it would quickly tell me, when we're in monochrome mode, which faces are facing backwards. And this is usually not a big deal because we look at our model like this, and so we don't really see those back faces. However, if you have a face turned backwards and a material applied to that, some rendering extensions have a hard time rendering that texture. So you may want to go to a monochrome mode and check that out quickly to make sure that all of the blue faces are not visible in the rendering scene so that you can render those textures properly. All right, I'll click back on our scene here to return to the information that we've locked into this point. Down here at the bottom, we have Ambient Occlusion. Let's go ahead and check that. This is a new feature for SketchUp 2024. It's pretty fun and exciting. Let's move our slider to the right, and you can see the distance extend on that Ambient Occlusion. So it's a shading in all of the corners to add a bit of realism. And then we also have the intensity slider. If I'm happy with those changes, I'll go ahead and lock in that to the style. Again. Once I lock that in, it will reflect in my scene. The third icon here is our background. So we've been seeing a lot of green in the background. We can click on that thumbnail and move it to gray, or even just a white background. And we can turn our sky on and off, change the horizon. So you can see that the horizon sort of gives us a fade into the color of the sky. And of course our ground. I like those changes. I'm going to hit Update and click back on my scene to take a look at that camera view with my new stylistic changes. Lastly, we're going to look at Mix. So if I would like to mix two styles. So let's say I like the background of one style and the edges of another, the face style of another. If I would like to mix those together, this is the right panel to be in. So let's use the dropdown here. If I go to, maybe we'll go back to those sketchy edges styles. If I'd like to capture just the edge style of this airbrush style, I can click and drag the thumbnail onto this title, Edge style, and it will retain just the edges of that style. If I like, let's say, go to our Ambient Occlusion, if I like the the face settings of this one, I'll drop it onto face settings and background and so on. So this is a great way to mix together different styles. Again, if I've gotten a little bit too far off track and I'm not loving the changes that I've made, I can just click back on my scene to start over.