#Macos color picker mac
#Macos color picker windows

You end up with textures 20 feet wide by 3 inches tall because the linked value failed to update. This means that if you change one value and press return on the keyboard, the new file instantly gets imported with only the change you made to one of the values. If you type in a new number for the upper value of width, the bottom number which shoudl be linked as an aspect ratio does not change and the OK button remains highlighted. Keep in mind that althought the height and width are set as linked by default in this window, they are not, changing one value does not actively change the other. When importing a new material you are prompted to set the dimensions of the material. Your experience may vary but In general I have very little luck renaming saved materials. If you renamed 20 materials you have 20 duplicates. best case is that the name simply reverts to the old name, which it does in about 70% of case, sometimes however the material will be mysteriously duplicated in the folder, so you will have one of the old name and one of the new name. On restart of Sketchup, odd things happen.

#Macos color picker mac

However this exposes a bug in the Mac materials management, the new name you type will only persist for that session of sketchup. You can double click a material in the folder area and chose Edit, this will open a few options at the bottom, one of which will be the name of the color/material, you can type in a new name. There is no reliable way to change the name of a saved material once made. You will be prompted to name your new texture, be careful with your name. When importing a new texture… a couple of quirks. There are kludgy work arounds I won’t go into here.

#Macos color picker windows

Unfortunately there is no “split screen” option for the pallet like in the Windows version of Skethup so there is not an easy way to quickly move materials from one saved list to another. You can also drag in image files (png, jpg, and the like) from your desktop and drop them into the current folder space in the pallet to make a new texture using that image, or right click in the empty space of the pallet and select new texture which does the same thing. Once in the new folder you can only add new materials / colors by dragging them up from the swatches below, or from the current selected material which is the larger one on the left. You must use the drop down menu to navigate away from the new list once to any other list then back to the new one it to actually get into the new folder. The swatches present in the panel are from whatever list you had previously up before making a new list. Now, this is a tricky part, once you have a new List created, the name of the new list will be appear in the selection at the top of the panel indicating you are in that folder, however you are not.

The materials collections list only sorts alphabetically with no organizing options, so I name all my custom material collection starting with “z” then a custom name so they get grouped together at the bottom of the list and are not lost among the standard collections. You can navigate to the custom material folders on your hard drive under library-application support-sketchup18-sketchup-materilas to rename a folder on the hard drive which will be then be reflected in your list on the next startup of Sketchup as Sketchup only reads the list on startup, not actively.

You will be prompted to give your list a name, choose your name carefully as there is not a function to rename a list from within Sketchup. Once in the materials pane you have the option near at the bottom of the panel under List, to choose New. The intended workflow for making and saving custom collections of colors and materials is through the Materials icon which is a brick. I believe this part is Mac behavior as they are responsible for the shared color picker UI. What was your previous Sketchup version? Like-wise the color swatches automatically stack up left to right in both 18 and 16 in Mojave, I cannot have “empty spaces”. It is present if I open the color picker in another application as you indicated, but not in Sketchup. I have 18pro and 16pro both running on Mojave (10.14.5) and the color “pallet” icon is not present in either of these versions. However, focusing on your question I see the same behavior as you but this is as it has been for some time now. Sheesh, don’t get me started on the the Mac materials interface, it really could use some improvement.