Renaming a material file issue
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I just renamed one of my brick material files from my personal materials folder but when I open SU > Materials & reload my materials folder, the material file name I changed hasn't changed in SU
Why doesn't it load the new file name in SU when I reload my personal materials folder. It updates any new materials I put in it, but I can't rename one (just want to put "A" at start of brick material name to put it at the top of my brick materials list).
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How did you rename it?
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Materials are saved externally as 'SKM' files.
A SKM file is actually a re-suffixed ZIP file.
So the current name of the SKM does not necessarily reflect the info inside the files found inside that SKM, which SketchUp used to assemble the material in the model.If you make [or edit] a material within your model and then save that material externally into a collection, then a SKM is made, and by default it is named after the material [with certain limitations of some characters not allowed in file-names].
At that instant the SKM file's name and the info inside its files will almost always match.If you subsequently use [import] that material in another model, then the original SKM file name and material name are likely to match.
However, if you rename the external SKM file in the collection, then its name could no longer match the material's details inside the SKM's files.
So now the displayed name of the newly imported material will probably not correspond to the SKM name.If you want to make a material with a new name then you need to work entirely within the model - [re]name the material and then save it externally as a SKM - that way the SKM's name and material's name, as detailed in the SKM's internal files, should match...
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@dave r said:
How did you rename it?
In Windows Explorer. I guess I have to rename it in Sketchup Materials>Edit to affect the list order in Materials drop down menu (ie. put at top of list for convenience).
I actually just put them in a separate folder.
Happy days.
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