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Examining All Materials in Your Model Want to take a look at all the textures in your model at once? You can do that in SketchUp. To see...

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Painting For example, take a look at Figure 7.1, where you can see a cube of wood. FIGURE 7.1 A cube Or is it? It certainly doesn’t...

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Selecting Materials Let’s say you want to draw a tile floor. How would you select that texture to paint it? Follow these steps: 1. Cli...

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Eliminating Automatic Shading You might have noticed that SketchUp automatically shades the objects it draws. So, for example, the top of ...

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Drawing in Solid Color Let’s say you wanted a pink circle. That’s it, just a plain pink circle. No texture, just plain color. How would yo...

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Painting Multiple Surfaces at Once You can paint multiple surfaces at once, which is great if you’re trying to select from among different...

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Creating Materials What if you can’t find the material you’re looking for in the materials browser? What if your material doesn’t seem to ...

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Editing Materials Want to edit a material you’ve created? Just follow these steps: 1. Click the Start Using SketchUp button. 2. Selec...

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Replacing All of a Material in a Drawing Take a look at the cubes in Figure 7.14, all surfaces of which are painted with bricks. FIGU...

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Sampling Existing Materials If you open a drawing that has materials unfamiliar to you, you can sample those materials and see if SketchUp...

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Undoing Changes and Canceling Operations Paint a surface and then wish you hadn’t? SketchUp can undo the change. In fact, nearly every o...