Shared material collection?
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Hi -
We have several Sketchup Pro seats in our office and want to create a Material Collection on a shared hard drive that can be accessed by all users. I've tried creating a shared folder on the drive, making an alias of it, and placing the alias in:
home>Library>Application Support>Google SketchUp 7>SketchUp>Materials
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Macintosh HD>Library>Application Support>Google SketchUp 7>SketchUp>Materials
...but that doesn't work. Any other possibilities?
From what I've read, it seems like this is a very easy thing to do on the Windows platform. Why not the Mac?
We are using Sketchup 7 Pro for the Mac.
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@unknownuser said:
Forgive me ..I am not a Mac user...I should probably just shut up but...
In our office we just access the library we need on the company shared drive directly through the component/material browser/dialogue....nothing special to do at all. We pick up materials and create our own folders for materials where ever.
....see I told you I should shut up!!Thanks for your response - no need to shut up!
You would think that the method you describe would work on a Mac, but, unfortunately, it does not. For some reason, the Mac version of the Sketchup material palette/browser does not allow you to choose the destination of newly created the folders, and won't allow you to browse for external material sources. It IS possible with the Mac version to create shared Component Libraries. Why? I don't know.
Again, Thanks anyway.
Anyone else have ideas about this?
Doug
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