Saving/adding styles to collection
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OK, I've tried searching and following along with the few posts that cover this, so I beg forgiveness if there is an obvious post addressing this. I am on Windows using SU Pro 2017.
I have a large model with many styles in it that I want to save to my own collection. I have tried clicking on "Details" under Style when "In Model" is selected, then "Save collection as.." I can create a New folder, select that folder, and only one random style from "In Model" is saved in that folder. If I open the secondary style pane and navigate to the New folder, I've tried drag/drop styles from the primary pane (set to "In Model") to the secondary pane. It gives me that gray rectangle like it's going to add it to the secondary pane ("New folder"), but when I drop nothing happens. Check the folder via Windows Explorer and no style was added. Please help.
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Where are you putting the new Styles collection folder?
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In the default location it wants to, see below:
C:\Users\Wes\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2017\SketchUp\Styles\Architectural Styles -
But it won't let you drag styles into it from the In Model collection? you should be able to do that. Can you make a folder in My Documents and drag them to there in the Styles window?
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I created a style folder on both the desktop and in My Documents. I can't drag/drop styles to either one in the Style window. However, on a whim, I tried drag/drop from one of the default style sets, and I CAN do that!
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So I just created a SU file from scratch, made a new style, and yes I can drag/drop it into any of those style folders I created earlier. For whatever reason, I can't drag/drop or save as a style out of the big model in question. If anybody has insight, I'd appreciate it.
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Where is the "big model" SKP file saved?
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It is on a local hard drive.
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Hmmm....
This is very odd. There shouldn't be any reason you can't drag styles from a specific file.
Do these styles have watermarks? Are the watermark images large files?
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No, no watermarks in any of the styles. But the "Display watermark" is checked on all of them. If I uncheck it, I can drag/drop to the folder I want! Solved...? Not sure why it would seem to care if the "Display watermark" is checked if there are no watermarks. But whatever, I can move forward!
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I can see that might be a problem to have the box checked when there's no watermark. It may be expecting to save an image which it can't find.
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