Different styles

In SketchUp, we have several style options for displaying the planes in our drawing.

The default settings can be found in the “Face Style” toolbar.
But there is more, there is so much that  I can barely see through the forest of the trees.
Just click the “Window” in the menu bar and choose “Styles” in the drop-down menu.

The “Styles” has three tabs.
In the first tab, “Select” is for choosing a style.
Now, it is impossible to give an example for all of these different styles, this will take quite a while, you can do it when you have some time.

In the second tab, “Edit”, we can make a style by including the changes for line settings, plane settings, and even the color of the sky and the ground.
When you have time you should try poking around and try everything.

In the third tab, “Mix”, we can further mix the various styles mentioned above.

• Choose a style type (1)
• Choose a style (2)
• And click the setting you want to change with the chosen style (3)

The only style that interests me is the X-ray style. With this, I can see through my image, and this way I know when unnecessary lines are present in a plane.
For example, you may find that, when I used the “follow me” tool to draw the roof  in lesson 32, there are two lines that have nothing to do.
So that, I can remove them.

 

There are abundant choices with the styles.
I am interested in the sketch lines, this can be very useful when you want to print something .

Exporting and printing drawing

Now we know how to apply a different styles, we need to know how we can export our drawing as a bitmap image and print it.

With all that we have already learned, this is a piece of cake.

To print your drawing, click “File” in the menu bar and select “Print” in the drop-down menu.
The smart ones among us have a preview first.
This can save you paper and ink.

To save as a bitmap, or a picture, click the “File” button in the menu bar, choose “Export” from the drop-down menu, and click the “2D image”.
Select a folder on your computer where you want to save this picture.
Give the photo a name in the second box.
And choose a file type in the third box. You can choose between a BMP file, a jpg file, a TIFF file or a png file.

Click the Export button when you’re done.

 

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