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Edge Styles

Edge styles add a different look to the edges in your model. When editing a style, SketchUp provides several options that can change how edges look in your model. The following options are available under Edge Settings in the Styles panel:

Last updated 17 July 2026

Edge styles add a different look to the edges in your model. When editing a style, SketchUp provides several options that can change how edges look in your model.

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The following options are available under Edge Settings in the Styles panel:

Option

Example

Good to Know

Edges

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Toggles the display of edges in your model. The example shows edges toggled on (selected).

Back Edges

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Displays edges obscured by other edges in your model. Obscured edges appear as dashed lines. When selected, this setting disables the X-Ray face style.

Profiles

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When selected, this option emphasizes the outlines of major shapes in your model. You can choose a thickness, in pixels, for the profile lines.

Depth Cue

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When selected, this option emphasizes foreground lines over background lines. Enter a foreground line thickness in pixels.

Extension

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Extends each line slightly past its endpoint for a hand-drawn appearance. This style does not affect inference behavior. Enter a length, in pixels, for the extension lines.

Endpoints

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Adds additional line thickness at the endpoints of lines. Enter a length, in pixels, for the length of the emphasized endpoints.

Jitter

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Renders each line multiple times at a slight offset, giving your model hand-drawn sketched appearance. This edge rendering style does not affect inference behavior.

Color: All Same

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Displays all edges in the color defined in color swatch. This option does not actually change any edge color assignments you may have made, but preserves them if you choose to view them again.

Color: By Material

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Displays edges with an assigned material color, such as those painted with a color.

Color: By Axis

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Edges that aren't aligned with an axis are colored with the All Same color swatch. Also, an axis color doesn’t appear on hidden edges.

3D Printing a Model

Before you print a model on a 3D printer, you need to make sure your 3D printer can understand your model data. Here's a quick overview of how to set up your SketchUp model for 3D printing:

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Adding an Environment to a Model

Environments allow you to add 360°panoramic backgrounds and image-based lighting conditions to your SketchUp models. The Environments panel is where you can add and manipulate environments, or import High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) files or OpenEXR files to create a new environment.

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Adding Attributes

Attributes make components dynamic by telling SketchUp what to do. You can choose from predefined attributes or create custom attributes:

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Adding Premade Components and Dynamic Components

Components in SketchUp turn geometry in a model into reusable entities. For example, most buildings have at least one door and window. Instead of modeling these common objects, you can insert a component that you have already made, or even one made by someone else.Like all geometry in SketchUp, a component is still

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Adding Text, Labels, and Dimensions to a Model

In SketchUp, you can add four types of text:

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