Editing styles in SketchUp allows you to customize the visual appearance of your 3D model, controlling elements like edges, faces, backgrounds, watermarks, and modeling settings. This process is primarily done within the Styles window.
Once you have a style selected and active for your model, you can modify its various settings directly.
Here's how you edit an active style, focusing on common adjustments like edges and faces, based on the provided information:
Steps to Edit Your SketchUp Style
To begin editing, first ensure the style you want to modify is the active style in your model.
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Select the Style:
- Navigate to the Select tab in the Styles window.
- Click the In Model icon ( ).
- In the list of styles that appears, select your desired style. This makes it the active style for your model.
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Access Edit Settings:
- Click the Edit tab in the Styles window. This tab contains several icons representing different style settings you can modify.
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Adjust Edge Settings:
- Click the Edge Settings icon ( ). This section controls how edges are displayed, including options for profiles, depth cue, extensions, endpoints, shaky lines, and jitter.
- Select your desired edge options from the choices available.
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Adjust Face Settings:
- Click the Face Settings icon ( ). This section manages how faces are displayed, such as front and back face colors, transparency, and display modes (like shaded, shaded with textures, or hidden line).
- Select your desired face options.
After making changes within any of the settings icons on the Edit tab, the active style is updated immediately to reflect those modifications in your model viewport. You can continue to adjust settings under the other icons on the Edit tab as needed to fully customize the style.
Remember that editing a style modifies it permanently within your current SketchUp model. If you wish to save the edited style for future use in other models, you would typically save it to your style library after editing.
