From the course: SketchUp 2020 Essential Training

Apply material using 3D Warehouse - Sketchup Pro Tutorial

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Apply material using 3D Warehouse

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- [Instructor] While SketchUp has a library of materials readily available in the Materials window, it is somewhat limited so it can be a good option to find materials elsewhere. The 3D Warehouse provides a good alternate option to the SketchUp Materials Library. Before we open the 3D Warehouse, we need to make sure that we have access to the face that we'd like to apply the material to. In this case, I'd like to find a brick material for this small fence here. I need to click on a face to see if I can select it first. I can see that I cannot select just the face, it's part of a group, so I'm going to double click into the group until I can click on the face level. Now that I have access to the faces, I can hop over to the SketchUp 3D Warehouse. You can access that by clicking on this icon here. It's possible to search for a material pallettes, so in this case, we're going to search for a brick texture. So I'm going to type brick texture, Enter, and now I can see that I'm presented with a few different brick pallettes of materials. I'm going to click on the thumbnail and I'm going to click See More Details. Next up I need to access the materials in this pallette so I'll click on Materials and now I have the ability to download each individual material without downloading the entire pallette. I'm going to click on Download on the second option here and it will load it directly into my paint bucket. I can click and release to apply it to a face here and now I'd like to apply it to the remaining faces. So I'm going to sample this. I'm on a Mac so I'm going to hold down my Command key to turn that into the eyedropper tool, or if you're on a Windows machine, you're going to hold down the Alt key. I'll click and release to sample that and load it into my paint bucket. Now I can click and release on the remaining faces that I'd like to apply it to. Once I'm happy with that, I'm going to go ahead and hit my space bar to activate my select tool and click into some white space to close the group.

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