How to? 4000+ colors into custom materials library

akalorik

Hi all! I have to get 4000+ colors into a Sketchup file to create a custom colors library - similar to the ones that Sherwin Williams provides. Any suggestions for doing this in a fast and efficient manner? In other programs (such as several by Adobe) I was able to write a simple script to pull the colors in from a spreadsheet with the color names and RGB values. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Bob James

http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=241
massmaterialimporter.rb by Adam Beazley, tweaked by TIG
Makes materials from image files in a folder... each named after the image-file and using that image as its texture...

driven

a skm file for a color just a zipped set of xml's and a thumbnail...

it's easy to write your own with a script that get it's info from a spread sheet...

I modified php one for converting all the Pantone colors, before I found it had already been done...

4000 colors will still take some time and create a very large Library...

i.e. for Pantone skm's with preview images on a mac...
40,072,902 bytes (44 MB on disk) for 1,348 items

john

lhs_cummings

I'm trying to do the same thing but import a couple of dozen Pantone colors pulled from an illustrator file into a Sketchup model. I would like to keep the names the same too. It seems that there should be a way to convert ASE (Illustrator's swatch file format) into SKM (Sketchup's material library format.) If it's XML you could even do it with a text editor or some Excel voodoo. Other than this thread I haven't found anything.

Dave R

@lhs_cummings said:

I'm trying to do the same thing but import a couple of dozen Pantone colors pulled from an illustrator file into a Sketchup model. I would like to keep the names the same too. It seems that there should be a way to convert ASE (Illustrator's swatch file format) into SKM (Sketchup's material library format.) If it's XML you could even do it with a text editor or some Excel voodoo. Other than this thread I haven't found anything.

Is there any particular reason to reinvent the wheel? Could you extract the colors from an existing Pantone SKM library?
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ssmily32

But how do you get jpg files from an ase or aco files plz ????

Dave R

@ssmily32 said:

But how do you get jpg files from an ase or aco files plz ????

A Google search turns up plenty of possibilities. Maybe this will help.