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Mixing Styles: Part 2 - Combine Styles

In Part 1 of this series, I set up a model with three styles – the default style plus two new ones. In this post, I’ll show how to bring aspects of one style into one of the other styles. Here’s where I left off: a nice interior scene, with three styles. The active style […]

Mixing Styles: Part 1 - Pick Your Styles

A lot of SketchUp users render their models using a separate application, such as Photoshop. But SketchUp has a pretty decent library of styles built-in, with which you can greatly change the look of your model. And a much-overlooked feature is the ability to mix, or combine, styles. I’ll use this interior model to demonstrate. […]

sketchup graphics and styles Vineyard Styles Model

If you missed Part 1 of this series, I went over the basics of how to change your model’s style. This post goes a little deeper, showing a few dos and don’ts. Pro Style Tips It’s rather fun to open SketchUp‘s Styles window and try out everything you see, to play with different face colors, backgrounds, watermarks, background […]