Rendering in SketchUp: From Modeling to Presentation for Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Interior Design

Linking the Texture Library

To insert and swap textures with ease, you will want to link your Texture Library to SketchUp’s Paint Bucket file browser and texture options. Doing this allows for a simple and easy workflow when applying and editing textures. Swapping textures to a linked Texture Library is reviewed in Chapter 8 and Chapter 9. Please note, this process differs for Mac’s. See the next chapter about Mac Texture tools.

To link the library:

1. In SketchUp, select Window ⇒ Preferences.

2. In Preferences, select File Option.

3. On the right of File Option, select Texture Images and click the Browse button (Fig. 7.15).

4. Navigate to the root folder of your Texture Library (Fig. 7.16).

5. Click OK. The Paint Bucket browser (under the Edit tab described in Chapter 8) is now linked to the Texture Library.

Fig. 7.15: Select Window ⇒ Preferences ⇒ Files to link SketchUp to the Texture Library.

Fig. 7.16: Linking SketchUp to the Texture Library folder