SU2015 Pro Material Folder on a Mac
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Upgraded from SU8 to 2015 Pro , no problem with plugins thanks to sketchUcation installer , thanks guys. Started downloading some textures from the store and surprise no materials folder to put them in??? Do I need to create a "Materials" folder to drop them into? The path would be user>library>application support>sketchup 2015>sketch up , is that correct?. Then I just download the textures I need and drag them to the materials folder? I'm dumb as a brick when it comes down to poking around under the hood on these machines..... don't want to screw something up. f.y.i. I'm running Mavericks. And a big thanks to Jeff H. for the tip in an older post on how to unhide the users library , it was making me a little nuts when I couldn't find it. thanks , chuck.
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Can you paste this into the Ruby Console?
Sketchup.find_support_file 'Materials'...and press enter
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Rich, thanks for the input, I'll give it a try when I get to the office in the morning and see were it takes me. chuck.
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it may lead you inside the app contents, if you have never saved a texture...
if so don't use that one...
try
Sketchup.find_support_file 'OldColors'which has always been include [empty]...
it's in your User Library, that's where you can safely make a new 'Materials' folder...john
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Rich, found the materials folder, ruby console gave me this path -
Applications/Sketchup2015/Sketchup.app/Contents/Resources/Content/Materials
to get down to materials folder I had to right click Sketchup and select "show package contents"
Driven, I had found the "old colors" folder in the user/library path in my search for the "material" folder.
Now I have what seems to be conflicting info, is it preferred to drop the "suc" texture folders into the "material" folder on the application path per Rich's post or do I create a new "material" folder in the "old color" folder as suggested by Driven?
Rich, Driven I do thank you both for your replies , now I'm just a little confused as which way would be best. as I said in the op I 'm dumb as a brick when it comes to poking around under the hood and don't want to "break" something. thanks, chuck.
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first up I'm a mac user, and write mac plugins for SU...
All 'User' folders should be in the 'User' Library path...
Having 'User' items the App/Contents means they will be removed every time you 'update' the app...
The problem is SU only 'makes' the User Materials, Components, Styles, Templates folders 'when' the user saves one of those types...
So before that, the returned path can point to the 'app/contents', which is bad...
Once you have made the 'User/../Materials' folder, the code Rich posted will point to the correct place...
I always make all those folders before even using a new version of SU...
then I copy any I want from the last version over to those folders [excluding Plugins of course]...
Sticking with the User path avoids lots of permissions issue as well...
It is where SU recommends you store User files, it's just a pity they don't pre-instal them...
john
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John, I really appriciate you taking the time to help me out. I'll take your advice to create a material folder inside the "old color" folder in user/library path. thanks, chuck.
P.S. - Rich, Thanks again for your input also. you helped me learn some more about checking under the hood and that's always a good thing!
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