Assign colour picker to key

Aidus

Is there any way to do this? I'm really tired to click hundred times on that colour picker icon

Gaieus

By colour picker, you mean the material sampler ("eye dropper") tool?
By default, B is assigned to the Paint **B**ucket and if you hold the Alt key while using that tool, it will turn into the material sampler.

Aidus

@gaieus said:

By colour picker, you mean the material sampler ("eye dropper") tool?
By default, B is assigned to the Paint **B**ucket and if you hold the Alt key while using that tool, it will turn into the material sampler.

YEssss!!! That's it! Thank You!

Gaieus

Ah, cool. I was a bit confused by the "colour picker" term (especially because "AFAIK" on the Mac, there is indeed a colour picker in the Material browser that you can use to match something... I don't know) but then I double checked and saw you are a PC guy.

Anyway, download the appropriate "Quick reference card" (a one page pdf document) which contains all the default modification keys for the different tools here:
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=116693

Very handy guide as one never know what he has discovered so far. There are more mod keys for the Paint Bucket tool for instance.

thomthom

@gaieus said:

Ah, cool. I was a bit confused by the "colour picker" term (especially because "AFAIK" on the Mac, there is indeed a colour picker in the Material browser that you can use to match something... I don't know) but then I double checked and saw you are a PC guy.

There is a colour picker for PC as well under the Edit tab.

Gaieus

Doh...

(Funniest thing is that NOW I remember using it before)

Even more 's

Bob James

@thomthom said:

There is a colour picker for PC as well under the Edit tab.

I've recently:

Switched back to SUPro PC version
Running on Windows 7

The problem is that the "Match Color on Screen" color picker on the Materials Edit tab does not pick up a color from another open window.
Has anyone else had this problem?

JamesD

I just installed Windows 7 last week. I am not noticing a problem as you describe with the Match Color on Screen. I was able to pull colors off my desktop background and from a web page I had open.

Bob James

Thanks, JamesD.

Actually, it's not the response I was looking for because that means I have a machine-peculiar problem. Arrrrgh