Saving a Style...?

This seems like such an Obvious Thing ( to me )...??? i've just created my first very large, complex SketchUp Dealie,

And as i'm navigating around it, looking for good screen shots to take of it,

It is much easier to do this as just lines, or hidden lines,

But when i want to render it in full,

It is amazingly tedious to bring down the styles menu,

Select the Style,

Open the View Menu, Choose Shadows,

Open the View Menu, Select Hide Edges

Open the View Menu, Select Profile Edges

Open the View Menu, Select Shaded with Textures.

Is there a way to save a particular, customized " Look " as a unique One Button Style?

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i really did look for this... But i am terrible at finding things on the web...

Maybe there should be individual FAQs for these different categories,

Instead of having to look through tens of thousands of previous

questions & answers...?

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TA,

Here's a crash course:

First, on the Select tab of the Styles browser, click the house icon to show the In-Model styles. There will probably be just one--your default style. On the top part of the browser there will be a large thumbnail next to a description; that thumbnail represents your current style. If there are two arrows chasing each other in a circle superimposed on the thumbnail, that means there are unsaved changes pending.

Create a new style by clicking on the icon at the right with a plus sign. You'll see a new thumbnail show in the bottom part of the

browser. All its properties will be inherited from your current style, and the new one will become current.

Now go through the edit tabs making changes to all the style properties you want--some or all of them--and then return to the

Select tab. You'll see the two arrows on the thumbnail at the top, meaning all the changes you just made have not been saved, the style has not yet been updated. Click the thumbnail with the arrows or the icon with the update arrows at the right to save the changes in the new style. Now you can return to the present settings at any time by clicking the new thumbnail in the bottom part of the browser. You can also change to any other In-Model style or any style on disc by selecting the appropriate style library and clicking one of the thumbnails. Return to the new style you just made by going back to the In-Model library and clicking the new icon.

Make as many new styles as you want by clicking the Create Style button and then assigning properties to them and finally clicking the Update button. All the new styles you have created at this point will be In-Model styles. They'll be saved with the model and will only be accessible within that model.

Now right-click an In-Model style icon and select Save As. You can save the style to disk in an existing library folder, or you can

create a new library folder. You can save as many of your In-Model styles to disk as you want in one or more folders.Once you save a style to disk you can retrieve it into any model and apply it at any time. To make a new style your default, just incorporate it as the current style into your default template and save the template.

-Gully

Hi The Translucent Amoebae, hi folks.

To complement on Gully's excellent and very datailed post, you can also create scenes to memorise viewing settings, including styles.

That way, you can have one scene that will switch you to a minimalist rendering style that will allows you to quickly navigate in your model and work on it and one scene that will switch to full rendering with textures and shadows and profiles and jagged edges and etc.

One simple click on a scene tab will do the switch.

Just ideas.

Jean (Johnny) Lemire from Richelieu, Quebec, Canada.