Mac materials editor

[ran1972]

Hi,

I am having the following difficulties with the SU8 mac materials editor:

1. Removing colour palettes. When I click remove from from list I get the option to remove. When I click remove
   from the are you sure you want to remove the colour list? the palette is still in the list.

2. Creating my own colour. In the colour drop down I have no option to create new colour only a texture.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Ran

[jeff hammond]

@ran1972 said:

Hi,

I am having the following difficulties with the SU8 mac materials editor:

1. Removing colour palettes. When I click remove from from list I get the option to remove. When I click remove
   from the are you sure you want to remove the colour list? the palette is still in the list.

which one are you trying to remove? sounds like you might of installed something that's adding a list to sketchup's color picker..

(that said, i once had a problem list that like you say, couldn't be deleted.. i can't really remember what i did to get rid of it but i think it went something like:
selected the list.. tried to remove it.. selected 'new' under the list drop down.. gave the list a new name.. then removed that list which actually removed both..
but hey, i really can't remember exactly )

@unknownuser said:

2. Creating my own colour. In the colour drop down I have no option to create new colour only a texture.

at the top of the color picker, all of the other mac palettes are available.. click on one of those (i generally use the crayon box and the color wheel)… with the brush tool active, select a color then paint it on something in your model.. that color will now be in the sketchup model and will show up in the sketchup color picker.. from there you can edit/remove/make it a texture….

[driven]

http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/OtherTuts/MacColorPicker/MacColorPicker.html
I posted this before, but it's so handy to know.
the mac's color picker has lots of options and hidden tricks.

I've got a couple of images loaded and I just drag of sample into the bottom palette to use when I need them

john

[wind-borne]

@ran1972 said:

Hi,

I am having the following difficulties with the SU8 mac materials editor:

1. Removing colour palettes. When I click remove from from list I get the option to remove. When I click remove
   from the are you sure you want to remove the colour list? the palette is still in the list.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Ran

I remember how annoying that problem.
To rid yourself of those reincarnating lists, delete the lists(folders) you want to remove from your Materials folders stored at one of these locations.

HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Materials

HD/Users/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Materials

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[jeff hammond]

fwiw, the problem lists i had came from an app called easy draw (http://www.eazydraw.com)..
the lists kept coming back even after removing the folders.. (and a couple of the lists were a whole bunch of the same color- black)..

that was a while ago though so maybe the app doesn't do that anymore?

[way77]

I have the same problem with some of these old eazydraw color lists. They're not in the material folders and can't find em. Any ideas?

[driven]

try HD/Library/ColorPickers and User/Library/ColorPickers , should be in one of those...
as wind-bourne says above
john

[way77]

Discovered the trick... duplicate the list, delete first one and then the copy. Both color lists are gone.... finally.

[mwm5053]

Ok I'm following along here and none of this makes since to me.The OP said he wanted to remove color pallets from in model or from a list. ?

No. 2 why would you do that unless you had something like Jeff mentioned from Easydraw. I can see removing these from MacHD like WInd-Borne said makes since but he said he get's "you sure you want to remove from list". ?

No. 3 @ John the link you provide shows a different "color pallet" than I see with the edition of a image Icon maybe Apple has changed this since 10.5.7 I'm using 10.7.4.

@ Jeff and John you guys are a lot more knowing about Mac than me so I;m just trying to get my head around this. Thanks Walt

[pbacot]

@mwm5053 said:

No. 3 @ John the link you provide shows a different "color pallet" than I see with the edition of a image Icon maybe Apple has changed this since 10.5.7 I'm using 10.7.4.

That looks like my materials editor. I have OS10.6.8. Perhaps it changes in Lion? You can add palettes.

[livemixer]

@way77 said:

Discovered the trick... duplicate the list, delete first one and then the copy. Both color lists are gone.... finally.

What worked for me: duplicate the EZdraw list, but remove the " copy" suffix that is automatically added to its name before clicking "OK." Then delete it & SketchUp will pop up a dialog box complaining that it can't delete "null" but both copies will be gone when you dismiss the dialog.

EDIT: This method does not persist -- IOW, the EasyDraw color palettes lists will be gone, but they will reappear the next time you launch SketchUp. To get rid of them forever, check the ~/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Materials folder (the user Library folder, not the system or root level ones) for any folders with a corresponding name (like "EasyDraw") & trash that folder.

Also check the ~/Library/Colors folder (again, the user Library folder) for any files with the extension ".clr" with names corresponding to the unwanted EasyDraw palettes (like "EZD_WebSafe.clr" or "Toolbar.ezdraw.clr") & trash those too.

Note that Easy Draw creates these color list (.clr) files the first time the app needs to access something that uses them (like the Easy Draw toolbar) so if you run Easy Draw after removing the unwanted color list files it has already created, it is still possible that other ones will be created & show up in the SketchUp Materials lists (or that you will get unexpected results if it needs one you have removed).

FWIW, page 14 of this Easy Draw version 3 manual lists all the color list files that version might install, & may be helpful in determining where some of the "mystery" color palettes came from.