# SketchUp Style tip - Hide your edges!

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/sketchup-style-tip-hide-your-edges/344793>\
**Category:** Tutorials\
**Tags:** styles, edges, performance\
**Created:** [February 19, 2026, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/sketchup-style-tip-hide-your-edges/344793 "2026-02-19T22:21:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/sketchup-style-tip-hide-your-edges/344793/1 "2026-02-19T22:21:07Z")

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Hey!

Wanted to show a quick tutorial on how to hide object edges in the newest versions of SketchUp and a few tips to do it faster, without using any extensions, like [Hide All Edges from Fredo](https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=HideAllEdges).  
This style tip works great for:

- Improving readability of 3D Text. (I Wish this was a standart checkbox in the tool or Entity Info);
- Reducing visual noise of individual SketchUp models;
- Improving SketchUp file performance (less edges visible= better performance).

When creating city scale models, I usually only leave edges visible for the building I’m working on. Makes a huge difference in performance.

To make shortcuts for **Deselect Faces** and the **propper Hide** command - you need to select some geometry first. Otherwise they do not show up in the Shortcuts menu.

**Deselect Faces is a recent command**  **that is not available in older SketchUp versions**.

For text clean up in older versions you can:

1. Select a face and chose Select all with Same Material
2. Invert Selection;
3. Hide all edges

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/9/a/9a6a5b9c81ca14d9c8699acb8c5750e87d1c1abb.jpeg "Clean up your Edges in SketchUp 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEt0BLDVIs)