RAL colors

TIG

OK - so to address my slowness here's the English version of the RAL skms.
Put the one RAL.skm and the RAL folder of skms into your Materials Folder - to change the names to suit your locale remove the RAL folder and change the names inside the RAL.skm file. When you next open SUp a new RAL folder will compile with the renamed skms inside...RAL.zip

utiler

@tig said:

OK - so to address my slowness here's the English version of the RAL skms.
Put the one RAL.skm and the RAL folder of skms into your Materials Folder - to change the names to suit your locale remove the RAL folder and change the names inside the RAL.skm file. When you next open SUp a new RAL folder will compile with the renamed skms inside...[attachment=0:yafmopu0]RAL.zip[/attachment:yafmopu0]

You're a legend, TIG!!!!!

d12dozr

Thanks, TIG!

Any idea why I still have a RAL-Farben folder (unconverted names) in my Materials browser as well as TIG's converted RAL folder? I have deleted all but the converted RAL skm from my Materials folder and restarted Sketchup

TIG

@d12dozr said:

Thanks, TIG!
Any idea why I still have a RAL-Farben folder (unconverted names) in my Materials browser as well as TIG's converted RAL folder? I have deleted all but the converted RAL skm from my Materials folder and restarted Sketchup

You must still have the folder or a RAL-Farben.skm ? Move it/them out of ../Materials/...

d12dozr

I believe I deleted all but the one RAL skm. Here is a screen grab of my Materials folder and Sketchup Materials palette...its not a big deal, just strange.

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hebelup

Thanks this colors are very good...

jarrielsucio

Thanks Burkhard!! very useful

3rdEye

Hi there,

can anyone please tell how to add a new RAL Color to the palette?
What do the numbers mean that are put behind the Name of the color in the lines in RAL-Colors.skm?

thx, moon

Dave R

I expect the numbers are basically a catalog or identifier number used by RAL. See here for the list. Also here.

You could edit an existing one in a model, change its name to the new name and click on Create Material. Then open the secondary materials pane set it to RAL. The top pane should be set to In Model Drag the new color from the In Model to the RAL library.

3rdEye

Thanks for the fast reply, Dave...

I compared the number inside the "RAL Farben.skm" to the numbers stated on the first link you sent to me (very cool list ), but they are different.
I am sure the number describes the colors for sketchup somehow. Would be interesting to know how to get to this number.
For the second part of your post: Thanks, yes i know how to do it this way, the the is a new color skm in the subfolder, but its not inside the list.
If we knew the way to get to the numbers inside the main skm file, we could share on any completions of the list very easy, and after a complete new installation you wil not have to define the colors again.

all the best,
3rdEye

TIG

A RAL color code [e.g. '1000'] is part of the RAL referencing system and bears no relationship to the SKM material's RGB colors.
So we find that: RAL 1000 RGB=190,189,127 Name= Grünbeige [EN=Green beige]

If the SKM is named 'RAL1000' it doesn't affect the RGB value - you could rename it to say 'Green beige' and it'd still have the same RGB values...

My RAL SKMfiles in http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=227982#p227982 is all you need... why the old 'Farben' version?

When you add a new SKM into the ../Materials/../RAL folder [e.g. you make a clone of a RAL material in your model and then save it externally to that RAL folder] then the available SKM files in the Material Browser is updated by the system to include that file. The only way to distribute the SKMs is to zip them up...

Dave R

FWIW, I compared the list of SKMs in the RAL folder with a list of RAL colors with RGB values I downloaded somewhere. I found 9 colors not listed in the SKMs. They'd be easy enough to add and if I get time, I will make them.

TIG

+FWIW those missing 9 are not commonly used by powder-coating companies etc anyway...

Dave R

Then perhaps this was a waste of my five minutes.
RAL Colors ADDED.png

RAL Colors ADDED.skp

TIG

Waste not want not.

I've extracted these into SKM files...
Here's a zip file with the various SKM files RAL+.zip
[which I've renamed slightly into 'anglicized' versions [Telegrau>>>Telegray] and to match other RAL SKM naming conventions].
Extract them and place these 9 SKM files into the same folder as the other RAL SKM files [i.e. inside ../Materials/.. named RAL ?]

Dave R

Thanks for that TIG. I thought about using Gray instead of Grau but the rest of the list I downloaded was in English with the word Gray used on other names. I decided to stick with what I read.

Also thanks for zipping up the SKMs. I figured for only 9 colors, they'd be easy enough to drag into the RAL library right from SketchUp but your way makes it easier yet.

3rdEye

Yep, thanks TIG,

i`ll try your Version despite I´m Austrian and like somehow the german version...

TIG

@3rdeye said:

Yep, thanks TIG,
I`ll try your Version, despite I´m Austrian and like somehow the German version...

3rdEye
You can always load the extra 9 skm files, rename them back with 'grau' etc and they re-export back as new skm files... them remove die Englisch diejenigen...