The Fastest Way to REPLACE MATERIALS in SketchUp!

In this video, we talk about how to use the SketchUp Extension Material Replacer to quickly swap out different materials in your SketchUp model. This is the easiest and fastest way I've seen to replace materials completely in your models!

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
0:10 - Example Model Location
0:20 - Changing materials manually
1:00 - Material Replacer Location
1:30 - How to use material replacer to replace a material in SketchUp
2:05 - Creating a material palette in your scene
2:51 - Other Material Tutorials

[Thesketchupessentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know what you think about Material Replacer in the comments below! :)

[mrspo]

Bless you Bless you Bless you
this just saved hours of work!

[basemalmaasarani]

Thank you very much, I really enjoy all your tutorial, it took me form 0 to Hero
thank you again

[huaquocnguyen]

You just saved my life again, MASTER, a thousand thanks!

[peterblickled]

Awesome! Thx a lot Justin and ThomThom!

[planitvr]

game changer for us. this tool is great.

[DGvisuals]

Is there a way to maintain the scale of a resized material rather than ending up with two different versions of the same thing?

[aansaqurban]

. hello, can you guide me please? on which video should I start for learning from beginning to ending. I mean to say tell me the numbering of videos for complete learning and practice of Sketchup from the initial level to a higher level

[rajivsporkslede]

Hey Justin what do you think about making sketchup shortcut the same as blender shortcut? That is very cool.
For example when i press nummpad 1 on sketchup i go direct in front view, i press nummpad 7 I got to top view. You can do alot of things and make your workflow faster.

[planitvr]

Great tool and I love it when I don't need change material back and forth. However, how do I lock my material sample box. Say for simplicity I have red, yellow blue and green on my sample box. When I click on my model replace red, then click on my sample box with blue. My sample box will also change and I can no longer go back to a red option. I'm looking at using it for changing the whole colour scheme in a bathroom tapware, shower caddy, hand rail, shower framing etc. So love I don't have to drill down and can do it in one click. just need to find a way to lock my colour choices. Any suggestions would really help me out.

[AWViz]

A little bit different process but can’t you just swap out the material/jpeg by selecting the edit tab and click on the file folder icon and choosing a new image…the only issue with this is that you usually have to re-adjust the scale based on the image size and what you need.

[Ramounskee]

I exported a model from Revit to Cad to Sketchup. Cad messed the materials up and made everything neon. Material replacer was there to save the day

[randomizerca]

I would love this extension. I downloaded it, but it won't run or show up on the ribbon because it says I'm missing a library. Every time I try to load or install the library, it opens a new instance of SU and tells me all over again that I'm missing the library.

[joshuatellano]

You could just click edit on the material tab, then upload a new jpeg of the new material. It will change anywhere in the model as long as it has the same material name.

[entanglaojr.]

can you help me how to put back my push and pull? the icon turn to white and its not working properly

[Drachenbauer]

how to replace the material only inside one group?

[MolediesOflife]

are u going back to sketchup and leave blender 🥺

[raminghanavati]

You can do this by pressing shift, but i think it only replaces materials in a group

[vmafarah]

Can you make a fast house modeling tutorial using free sketchup plugins, like for doors, windows,stairs including spiral, roofs and its tiles. something alternative to flex tools and plusspec . and plugin tools number doesn't matter, you can use as many as plugins, you may use two plugins for the same purpose . like dibac, 1001, windows builder, roof by tig, stair
Also make another video complate AUTOCAD like sheet preperation of plan, section, elevation using curic section line .
also make a video about quantifying and energy calculation. etc....

[crazycutz]

what so tiresome about sketchup is this sentence: "there is an extension"
how about just build that in instead..