Thanks for the feedback

I appreciate the information and advice.

As you say, it is a workaround.
I would still like to see a more direct, built in, approach to achieve those results.

Thanks
Steve

I would like Captioned Thumbnails

At present, in drop down windows for Materials, Components, etc. we have a choice of displaying a list, or thumbnails of varying sizes.

Neither of these modes works very will for me, especially when my model has many similar, but different components. In thumbnail view they are almost impossible to distinguish one from the other. Hovering the mouse over the thumbnails is an annoying waste of time.

I would like to have thumbnails with captions displaying the name of the Component, or Material.

And, I would like to be able to identify a component in my model easily (By right clicking on it perhaps. The name of the component could be at the top of the list.)

(wait a while, I will think of more....)

Thanks

I got this excellent advice in the Google Group Sketchup forum
http://groups.google.com/group/sketchup/

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@unknownuser said:

...there's a dropdown menu pick called Save Library As...

That will save your entire In-Model Material Library as a named
library, like Wood or Carpet and Textiles. The new library will
correspond to a like-named folder under C:\Program Files\Google\Google
SketchUp 6\Materials, and the folder will contain one .skm file for
each texture.

Hope others find it useful

And thank you again for your help

Steve

So you do have to handle each file individually.

There is no way to "select all" and move/drag/copy to another folder/library.

But I am way better off with this plugin than I was before. Thanks for it.

Steve

Yes, but they do not appear to be saved as skm files.

Each must be saved individually.

Or am I just being dense?

Steve

@kennyl said:

Remus,

There's a Ruby script called massmaterialimporter.rb that will do what you want.
See http://www.crai.archi.fr/rubylibrarydepot/ruby/em_ren_page.htm.

Thanks. I had found that a few minutes ago, but can't figure out how to make it work.

It prompts me to open a file, which it says will open the folder. I do so, and nothing further happens.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks

Steve

Thanks for the response.

If I find something I will certainly post it here.

Steve

@remus said:

If you open up the model, go into the materials window (window->materials) and then select 'in model' from the drop down menu, you'll see a list of the textures in the model, you thn right click these and select 'save as' to save the material.

AaaaaH! I see.

And I see I can do that with imported jpg's that I use as textures as well.

Is there some easier way to save many Jpg's to textures? By the batch? I have a few dozen images I would like to do that with.

Many thanks (and such a swift response!)

Steve

Forgive my obvious ignorance. Being new to Sketchup, and even newer to this Forum, I am probably missing something incredibly obvious, but...

How can I use this image as a texture, or material, in Sketchup?

Thanks

Steve