[TIPS 'ND TRICKS]: dragging textures to material editor
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Hi people,
I am using Sketchup for more than 4 years now and still from time to time I stumble upon a feature I didn't know of.
This one is a great one. A lot of you will already use it but I just discovered it today by accident.
Here it goes:
Instead of browsing a texture and digging into folders to change a material texture, 'drag and drop' your textures from explorer into the texture slot. Waaay more efficient.That's it.
I hope some of you found this helpful.Regards,
Kwistenbiebel -
Also works with styles (.style files) and the Styles Window.
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I see...
what about dragging in another SU model?....must try that. -
Yes, you can drag and drop SU models into an open SU window and they will appear as components in the current model. I do this when reviewing students work on a projected screen...it is much faster to drag the submitted homework assignments into an empty SU model than it is to to go through a bunch of dialogs just to load the next assignment for review.
There are a lot of drag-and-drop sort of things in SU, at least on Windows. For instance, you can drag importable image files like JPEGs and drop them right into your model. I have to assume it works the same on a Mac.
(Note that it doesn't seem to work with other model formats.)
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Interesting.
I find the drag-'nd-drop method extremely handy when working with a dual screen setup.
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Cool tips guys, always nice to learn new stuff.
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