Change Materials Folder Location or Open Collection on OSX

[monkeybanjo]

Does anyone know if it's possible to change the Materials folders location, or to define additional materials folders?

I'd like to have a materials folder within my Dropbox folder, but i'm not sure if that's possible.

Thanks in Advance,
Dave Moore

[solo]

I do not see why not as dropbox resides on your drive so it should be possible and that way all new mats will sync remotely and if you open a model on a remote machine the dropbox address should be the same so I believe it will work.

[Box]

Yep, just made one.
Click the little arrow next to the drop down in the materials browser and go from there.

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[monkeybanjo]

Hmmm....seems there's a difference between OSX and Windows sketchup. On OSX, I have a colors dialog rather than a materials dialog, and it doesn't have this option.

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[jeff hammond]

you can create a symbolic link of your materials folder (in it's default location) and place the alias in your dropbox folder.. (not quite an alias though.. a little more powerful than that..)

use this (or terminal if you're savvy enough) to create the link:
http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/~seiryu/symboliclinker.html

there's a thread around here showing the process.. i'll look for it in a minute..

[EDIT] here's the thread:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=40866

on pg2, there's an explanation of how to do it on mac..

[driven]

have a look at the mac 'color picker' threads, there are lots of things you can do...

I'm sure you can link your materials folder to dropbox. I don't, but I think Jeff does and he beat me to the post, again.
Sketchup.find_support_file 'Materials' might be helpful..

john

[monkeybanjo]

@Jeff - Thanks for that. I've done as you suggested and it's perfect...i did it through Terminal, and now consider myself Savvy

@Driven - Thanks for the info - I'll take a quick look

[jeff hammond]

@monkeybanjo said:

i did it through Terminal, and now consider myself Savvy

haha.. nice