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Speeding Up Rendering with Fast Styles

SketchUp Styles can add complexity to a model that slow down SketchUp as you work on your 3D model. To apply the styles you need while optimizing performance, use Fast Style.

Last updated 17 July 2026

SketchUp Styles can add complexity to a model that slow down SketchUp as you work on your 3D model. To apply the styles you need while optimizing performance, use Fast Style. When a style qualifies as a Fast Style, SketchUp displays a badge like this: fast_styles_badge.png

If you apply a style created in SketchUp 2014 or earlier, the Fast Style doesn't display the badge until you force the style to update once in SketchUp.

A Fast Style disables a style's more taxing effects — that is, settings that require additional processing and slow down SketchUp as your model becomes more complex. If any of the following settings are enabled, then the style will lose its classification as a Fast Style and the badge will no longer appear.

  • Profiles
  • Depth Cue
  • Extension
  • Endpoints
  • Jitter
  • Sketchy Edges
  • X-Ray with Transparency: Medium
  • X-Ray with Transparency: Nicer
  • Transparency: Medium
  • Transparency: Nicer

Every face style, including X-Ray, with Transparency set to Medium or Nicer will lose the Fast Style classification. The one exception is the Wireframe face style, which remains a Fast Style with any Transparency setting.

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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