SketchUp Styles

A great way to enhance your final presentations is with the use of a special feature in Google SketchUp called Styles. Styles are collections of display settings, with new options like Watermarks and Sketchy Effects, saved in the Styles Palette. If you have the Pro version of Google SketchUp you can use Style Builder to create custom non-photo realistic (NPR) Styles for SketchUp. These NPR Styles can make your models appear hand-rendered, super-technical and everything in between. You can create, save and organize Styles as well as share Styles with others. With a single click, you can quickly apply a Style to any model by selecting it from the new Styles window. Styles provide a unique way to visualize models within SketchUp. To learn more on how to create your own Styles, a good start would be to go through Aidan Chopra’s Google 3D Basecamp 2008 video session, or download the how to Create Sketchy Styles PDF. SketchUpArtists have one of the largest collection of free SketchUp Styles available on the web, 130 at the moment. They were created by some of the very best SketchUp professionals in the world, who have freely contributed their time and skills to produce them. We hope these visual libraries will be a useful reference and inspiration in your future creative process. These are our collections to date.