Her website, offers a wide variety of learning materials for all ages, from kids in grade school through design professionals. Next, in Part 2, I’ll show how to get your downloaded style into SketchUp.īonnie Roskes has been writing tutorial-style projects on 3D modeling software, primarily SketchUp, since 2001. Note that the file extension for a style folder is *.style. Then you can extract the downloaded file into that folder. I made a folder called “SketchUpArtists” in my “Documents” folder.

Within the 2016 styles, I want to try out this one – “Concept with fine marker.” Clicking here downloads the style as a ZIP file.īefore extracting the ZIP file, create a folder on your computer for storing new styles. I’ll demonstrate how to download and install one of their hand-drawn-looking styles.įirst, go to the SketchUp Artists home page and click “SketchUp Styles.”įree style collections are available by year – the latest is 2016. SketchUp Artists is a wonderful resource for styles, as well as tutorials and other resources that focus on model presentation.

SketchUp provides a pretty decent collection in the Styles window:īut 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!) Styles are used to change how your model appears. But I’ve seen that once someone discovers styles, they’ll play with them like a kid in a toy store. So many people don’t know about SketchUp styles.

Downloadable sketchup