ASCII format for .skm?

Jim

I thought this was answered somewhere, but was not able to find the answer.

Here is posted a zipped file of sketchup materials. The file has the .skm suffix, but is really a plain text file. And when it is copied to the SketchUp Materials folder, it is converted into a folder of materials.

Is the format documented somewhere?


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RAL1000-Gruenbeige,0,8962508,0,0,0.500000,0
RAL1001-Beige,0,8893646,0,0,0.500000,0
RAL1002-Sandgelb,0,7582160,0,0,0.500000,0
RAL1003-Signalgelb,0,44530,0,0,0.500000,0
RAL1004-Goldgelb,0,42980,0,0,0.500000,0
RAL1005-Honiggelb,0,38599,0,0,0.500000,0

thomthom

Are you sure the .skm file is ASCII and not UTF-8/UTF-16?

thomthom

hmm... the .skm is usually a .zip file with other files inside? Maybe this is a legacy version?

thomthom

RAL1000-Gruenbeige,0,8962508,0,0,0.500000,0

I think this refer to a long integer. See this thread from here for info on that type of representing colour: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17047&start=195#p202323

As for the rest - guess you can work something out why changing some of the numbers and seeing what the result become.

honoluludesktop

Any guesses as to what the numbers mean? The third in the sequence must be the color?

thomthom

Where is this Sketchup Materials folder?

TIG

The RAL setup is exceptional.
It has a set of .skm files BUT there's also a .txt file with all of the RAL references inside it...

Jim

If you delete the ral folder and place only the text file in the folder, SketchUp will automatically generate the .skm folder. That's what I found interesting, and wanted to build some color libs using the technique.

thomthom

I'm still confused to the location of these folders...

Jim

It would be a sibling (neighbor?) of the Plugins folder on Windows.