Materials not being saved
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I have a sketchup design with a lot of components. One of the components is giving me some grief. All my components were created the same way, by selecting a set of geometries and then saving as a component. If I open the Components browser and select my troublesome component, then right-click on it, select Properties, it shows the file that the component is loaded from.
If I open Windows Explorer on the directory containing my component and double-click it, a new instance of SketchUp is opened and my component displayed, except that the surface of the shape is all white instead of the Material that is visible in the complete design.
How do I get the Materials to be incorporated into the Components? Some of the Components have the correct Materials "In the Model", as the Materials window calls it.I'm thinking that the Component that's missing the Materials was created in SketchUp 2013, and that the old Components that have the Materials were created in SketchUp 8.
(But that's just a guess.)Is there a way to write the Components used in a Model so that each Component will have its Materials?
In the meantime, I've saved my Materials in their own directory, and applied them to the one offending Component. However, I would hate to have to do that each time I edit one of the (hundreds of) Components in my complete design.
Thanks,
Chelmite -
Did you apply the materials to the component or to the individual faces IN the component?
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@cotty said:
Did you apply the materials to the component or to the individual faces IN the component?
See this screencast which shows the difference...
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