The ULTIMATE GUIDE to Materials and Textures in SketchUp! (Everything you need to know)

In this video, we're going to talk about everything you need to know to use, customize, create, and create libraries of materials in SketchUp! If there's one video you watch about materials, make it this one!

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
0:11 - How to apply materials to objects in SketchUp
2:05 - Creating custom colors in SketchUp
2:55 - Where to find materials that are currently in your model
3:30 - Applying materials to grouped geometry
4:38 - Adding textures to objects in SketchUp
5:40 - How to change the size of textures in SketchUp
7:00 - How to change the color of texture materials in SketchUp
9:15 - How to position textures with pins
11:55 - How to position textures with non-fixed pins
13:40 - SketchUp materials vs. custom downloaded materials
15:25 - How to create a custom textured material in SketchUp
16:55 - An extension for reducing texture image size
18:20 - Seamless vs. Non-Seamless textures
20:08 - How to save materials to your computer
20:55 - How to open custom collections of SketchUp materials
21:55 - The Best Websites for Free Textures

[Thesketchupessentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions about materials in SketchUp in the comments below! :)

[johnpeterragasa]

YOU'VE BEEN VERY HELPFUL IN MY JOURNEY IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL. THANKS A LOT.

[RockyJones]

Great video. Going over the "basics" you always learn something. It's great that you cover every little button that we sometimes skip over even after using SU for years. Thanks!

[jamesjohannes]

Just wanted to take a second to let you know how much I appreciate these videos. Just started using sketchup a couple days ago for deck plans. The way you describe everything and get to the point is so helpful. Although it's still a task finding and learning while trying to complete a project, I feel much more confident. Do you ever do live streams to help with specific questions?

[prodbynrdbeats]

I HV never seen someone who does the modelling tutorial better than you🙌

[blakehodges]

You're the man. Thanks so much for such a clear and efficient video!

[PaulineFerguson]

Awesome, new stuff I did not know. Thanks. That bit about unlinked pins was great.

[bradleykreuger]

The last section of your tutorial you posed the question of "how to get collections to show up when you start a new model" Have you learned more about this? I am trying to streamline my SKP workflow and the collections tool seems like a great place to keep my materials organized. I use my collections in every model I work with. Something that has also been a pain is the process of saving materials to the collections folder. I can't just download a jpeg to my external materials folder. I have to save the image, create the material, and then save it as an SKP file. Not the most efficient workflow especially if I am trying to share this knowledge with coworkers when I doubt they will adopt this multi step process. Thanks again, your videos rock as always!

[Ilovekitsunes]

There's just something about ya! Thank you for your videos. as always, learnt a few new things :)

[captainsawdust]

Great in depth video about materials & textures.

[arkitektoy]

So well explained! Thank you very much!

[ivcqvji]

Brilliant video as always. Thank you so much. I'm a design student on my final project and the building's walls have detailed brick and flint work. Would I be best to split the face with the line tools and try and apply different textures/materials that way? I tried take a photo and applying it as one texture but it doesn't look great as it's not seamless and no one part of the wall is the same (angled brick work, windows, etc). Open to any recommendation but couldn't find anything on this. Many thanks

[staciearrigo]

Hi, love the tutorials. I am trying to find out how to apply colors from an electronic color material board Instead of having to look up the RGB numbers. That is extremely time consuming.
Thanks!!

[harshkumar]

Nice sir. Your video very knowledgeble and easy.Make some video rhino vray start to advance level. Please more video rhino vray thanks🙏🙏🙏

[TundeLendvai]

Hi! I have been trying to figure out how to pick a material is SU for Mac. I have 100 textures in a model. I want to apply the same texture to for example a chair. I want to pick the fabric and go to the new chair and apply that texture. In widows this is easy but not sure how to do it in Mac. Thanks!

[ashrafali-qdnw]

Hai sir. Thankyou for the informative video.
My question is, why the sketchup file is always slowing down while adding and rendering the materials in it?
Please help me with this.

[deskreanimation]

good tuto
do sketchup have displacement option?

[thiruukarthi]

pls how to put camera in interior layout

[dsnhuqp]

Hi sir!
The added plants from laubwerk plant extension could not be rendered in enscape , how can i solve this problem?

[miguellasala]

Does Sketchup 2016 have brushed steel?