…am I missing out on anything?
any interesting use cases?
It’s designed for creating sketchy line styles. I’ve used it quite a lot. As to whether or not you’ve missed out on anything, I can’t say. Do you use sketchy line styles? Do you want to make your own?
I don’t use sketchy styles. I predominantly work on CDs and post-conceptual content. But maybe I just need more inspiration to try them out.
I don’t use the sketchy styles for most of the woodowrking planes I do but I find it kind of fun to use them for other things. I generally prefer sketchy styles to those renders that try to look like photographs. You can look at the link in my profile and see a variety of examples of SketchUp models using different sketchy styles.
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FWIW, One of the ways I like to use sketchy styles is to communicate to my client that the model is not a final design. That it’s still open for their input. Another way I use them is to hide finer details. For example, when I am designing a piece of furniture I will add details related to joinery because they inform how the piece will be built but I may not want to share those details with the client, at least until they’ve signed the contract so they can’t just walk my design down the street for someone else to build. If they are going to take my design to someone else for construction, that person is going to have to work for it.
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I do the same exact thing. Once we started using sketchup and showing clients these super clean draft drawings, they would immediately start picking on details because it just looked more finished. They lost sight of the big picture and that it was a rough. Sketchy style truly helps them back out.