SketchUp Artists Styles: Part 1 – Download Free Styles

So many people don’t know about SketchUp styles. But I’ve seen that once someone discovers styles, they’ll play with them like a kid in a toy store.

Styles are used to change how your model appears. SketchUp provides a pretty decent collection in the Styles window:

 

But when you want to branch out from SketchUp’s provided styles, you can find more styles out there (and create your own, which is a heavy topic for another time!)

 

SketchUp Artists

SketchUp Artists is a wonderful resource for styles, as well as tutorials and other resources that focus on model presentation. I’ll demonstrate how to download and install one of their hand-drawn-looking styles.

First, go to the  SketchUp Artists home page and click “SketchUp Styles.”

 

Free style collections are available by year – the latest is 2016. Click the link to open the collection.

 

Within the 2016 styles, I want to try out this one – “Concept with fine marker.” Clicking here downloads the style as a ZIP file.

 

 

Style Folders

Before extracting the ZIP file, create a folder on your computer for storing new styles. I made a folder called “SketchUpArtists” in my “Documents” folder.

Then you can extract the downloaded file into that folder. Note that the file extension for a style folder is *.style.

 

Next, in Part 2, I’ll show how to get your downloaded style into SketchUp.

 

About Bonnie Roskes

Bonnie Roskes has been writing tutorial-style projects on 3D modeling software, primarily SketchUp, since 2001. Her website, www.3dvinci.net offers a wide variety of learning materials for all ages, from kids in grade school through design professionals. Her materials cover general 3D design, 3D printing, geometry, interior design, geo-modeling, and more, and future books are in the works. Read more about Bonnie.

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