From the course: SketchUp 2020 Essential Training

Changing the style - Sketchup Pro Tutorial

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Changing the style

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- [Instructor] Changing the style of your model is a great way to get creative in how you present it. To change the style, we'll need to access the Style window. On a Mac, it's under Window Styles. And on a Windows machine, it's going to be under your default tray on the right. First, let's look at the Select tab and use the drop down menu, to take a look at different sets of options. Yours may have the folder default selected, or the styles and model selected. Either way, scroll through the different options and go ahead and explore these. Sketchy edges is a fun one to look through as there are a few different artistic options here. You can click on the thumbnail to apply the style. If I go back to the drop down menu and choose default styles, I can see that some of these styles have a green clock next to them. The green clock means that these styles will allow you to model faster, and your model won't run slowly. Some styles are just better to work on your model with. For example, the sketchy edges would be difficult to measure and draw in, but it's fun to present with. The next tab is your edit tab. This will allow you to edit different qualities of each style. The first icon here will edit your edges. We can uncheck our edges to not view them. Or we can check profiles to view more detail on curved looking edges. We can also add things like endpoints and jitter and there's lots of fun options here. The next option is the faces icon. This will allow us to choose a different color for our default front and back face, and we can also change our viewing style here as well. The next option will allow us to change the background. So I can check the sky to turn the sky on and change the color of the ground and sky as well. The third icon allows us to add a watermark to our model. And the fourth icon will allow you to change the colors of the modeling indicators. For example, if you'd like to change the color of selected groups, you can click on this blue icon here and change that to a different like perhaps green or orange. And when a group is selected, the bounding box will show that color. We can also change the color of our guidelines, our section fill and so on. In general, it's a great idea to use a default style with a green clock for modeling, and then get creative with other styles if you'd like to present your 3D model in other creative ways.

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