Model Credit

Model Credit apartment house by Paulwall. Note that this toolbar allows you to modify between pre-set styles. If you would like to make a custom style that adjusts the way your model looks.

When you check out this toolbar, there are basically two sections in it.

• First, there are two boxes to the left of a touchline. This affects your ability to ascertain different edges through your faces. They will be turned on and off independently of the opposite options.
• The second section allows you to regulate your face settings, meaning the way your actual faces within SketchUp look.

X-Ray Mode

The option on the left allows you to show on X-Ray mode. It creates tons of confusion for newer users because they’ll click thereon without knowing what it does, and then they can not find out the way to change their models back to the way they were before.

You can see that once you click on this feature, it turns your faces somewhat transparent, allowing you to ascertain through your faces into your model. This will be great for looking into more complex models to ascertain what’s inside. If you would like to regulate the transparency of your model, you’ll do so by going into your styles section, within the faces tab, and changing your transparency quality to “nicer,” then dragging your slider.

Show back Edge

In addition to using the X-Ray mode tool, you’ll also use the “Show back edges” function to feature more of a light line overlay wherever you’ve got edges behind your shape. This function doesn’t really turn your face transparent, so my assumption is that it’s just a lighter weight. One among the great things about this is often that you simply can use the sides to infer from albeit they’re blocked by faces.

The other set of options is all about changing the way that your faces look within SketchUp. Unlike the X-Ray/ Show Back Edges options that you simply can activate or off, you’ve got to possess one among these options selected – you cannot turn them off by clicking once or twice.

Wireframe Mode

The first option puts you in wireframe mode, where your faces in your model don’t show up in the least, only your line work.

Hidden Line Mode

The second puts you in hidden line mode, where only your lines and faces show up, but there is no colouring or shading on your faces. This mode is great for previewing shadows.

Shaded Mode

The third option is the shaded mode, meaning that your model will show colours, but not textures, so any textured face will just be shaded – the image files for the textures won’t be loaded.

Full-on Texture Mode

The fourth option is full-on textured mode – all of your textures and texture image files will load with this setting.

Monochrome Mode

The last option puts you in monochrome mode. This mode basically just shows your faces shaded by front and back faces, so you’ll see which faces have the front side facing outward, and which of them have the rear side facing outward. This mode is extremely useful for checking face orientation in your model.

Note that you simply can adjust the colour of your front and back faces within the styles section of your tray.

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Face Option

There are a few different options that you can adjust regarding how faces look. The face options are located under the edit tab under the second box up the styles section.

The first two options allow you to adjust the way that the front and back sides of faces look in SketchUp.

For example, if you really want to make sure that only the front faces of objects are facing out, you can come in and adjust all the back faces to a red colour. That way, if red is visible, you will know that the backside of a face is facing outward.

Face Style

The next section in this area we are going to talk about is the face styles. There are 5 different options for your face styles.

• Wireframe mode

Wireframe mode shows only the lines making up your model – this means no faces are actually shown.

• Hidden Line Mode

Hidden line mode appears all the lines that are clear in a current camera angle while hiding any lines that are behind faces. No colours or materials are visible on faces.

• Shaded Mode

The shaded mode will show the colours of materials on all of your faces, but no actual texture images are going to be shown. This means any faces with texture images, such as roof tile or brick will be rendered with a single, uniform colour. This can make the model accelerate if it has a bunch of high-resolution texture images in it. Shaded using textures shows all textures exactly as they are, colours, texture images and all.

• Display Shaded

Display shaded using all same will render all faces in the model as your default front / back face colours.

• X-Ray Mode

X-ray mode will allow you to point to outlines that are hidden behind faces.

Transparency

You can adjust your model to show transparency or not, as well as the quality of the transparency. Turning transparency off can make your model run faster. If you set your transparency quality to pleasant, you can dictate how transparent objects are.

EXAMPLE

How to use these style options when you combine them?

The model is pulled out of the 3D warehouse of the empire state building. You can build up a bunch of rectangles to act as windows.

We have to now start by setting our model to shaded mode. Next, let’s enter our line settings and make a few changes. Let’s turn jitter on, also as depth cues, and add some extensions to our points. You will notice how this lets you create a whole new look for your model. You can now export this image to be used elsewhere.

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