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.
FIGURE 7.14 Two cubes with painted faces.
What if you wanted to change the material used to paint the cubes to, say, wood? Do you have to click each face of each cube individually?
No—you can change all occurrences of a material in a drawing at once with SketchUp. In this task, we’ll draw the two cubes and then change their materials from brick to wood. Here’s how it works:
1. Click the Start Using SketchUp button.
2. Select the Rectangle tool and draw a horizontal rectangle.
3. Select the Push/Pull tool in the toolbar and pull the rectangle up into a cube.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to draw the second cube.
5. Select the Paint tool in the toolbar. Selecting the Paint tool displays the materials browser.
6. Select the Bricks and Cladding texture collection in the materials browser.
7. Select the Concrete Block (that is, large gray brick) texture in the Bricks and Cladding collection by clicking it.
8. Click all surfaces of the cubes. This will paint all surfaces of the cube with the concrete blocks.
Now we’ll change the material used in the cubes to wood.
9. Select the Wood texture collection in the materials browser.
10. Select the wood texture you like best by clicking it.
11. Hold down the Shift key.
12. Click one surface of a cube. When you do, all surfaces painted with the same material change to the wood texture you’ve selected.
You can see the results in Figure 7.15, where the cubes have been painted with wood texture.
As you can see, it’s simple to repaint an object.
TIP: Painting Adjacent Surfaces
You can also restrict the repainting to adjacent surfaces if you use
the Ctrl (Option key on the Mac) instead of the Shift key.
Thanks :
Steven Holzner,
SamsTeachYourself Google SketchUp 8 in 10 Minutes
