Component and material library in 2017 version?

[john2]

Where is the component and material library located in sketchup 2017 version?

In 2016 version components were located in C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2016\Components\Components Sampler

I could not find such location in 2017 program files

[filibis]

You can see those locations in Window > Preferences > Files

[john2]

@filibis said:

You can see those locations in Window > Preferences > Files

In order to load my preferences from my laptop's sketchup to PC, I imported the preferences files and had to then manually change the file locations by going to

Window > Preferences > Files

because I was getting errors as they folder location in my laptop were different and from 2015 version of sketchup. What is the default path, can you tell me?

[filibis]

Components: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2017\SketchUp\Components
Materials: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2017\SketchUp\Materials\

[john2]

@filibis said:

Components: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2017\SketchUp\Components
Materials: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2017\SketchUp\Materials\

Okay! Thanks.

[Lofta]

^Hi all...
Just having trouble trying to get SU2017 to load the material folder...
I replaced the existing one in appdata with mine ( same folder names) and when SU loads, it loads the old materials and not mine...So I copied the folder onto my desktop, and in windows/prefs relink to that folder without success...it keeps loading the old original folder...any hint?
Strangely when i look at the path it is fine, but the content in materials in SU is different than the content in the folder ( not the same .skm !)

thnx much!

[Dave R]

SketchUp is not loading the shipped materials from AppData. It would be best to add new collections to favorites rather than trying to replace the shipped materials. If you do replace the shipped materials with your own and you have any reason to uninstall SketchUp or if you install a maintenance release, you'll lose your materials and the shipped ones will be put back in their place.

It's better to make a directory in Documents or some other non-program directory for your materials. Then, those materials don't get touched in the event of a reinstall or upgrade. And you can use the same location for each version of SketchUp you might be running. When you upgrade to SU2018, you can pick the same directory for materials.