Importing Wood Textures

SketchUp Pro
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I am trying to import wood textures into my model. I have downloaded .skm files into a folder in my documents/sketchup/wood species textures folder. When I go to Materials, Create Material and navigate to the folder, it is blank. I have 55 files in there like alder.skm and ash.skm. What am I missing?

Dave M.
Sketchup Pro 2024
Windows 11
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2080

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You can’t just import .skm files into your SketchUp models. You need to put the .skm files into a folder in the Materials folder (User/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2024/SketchUp/Materials) Then when you open SketchUp and go to the Materials panel, you’ll be able to select that folder and see the materials. The AppData folder is normally hidden so you need to show it in File Explorer. Alternatively you could change the location SketchUp looks for your materials in Preferences. I’ve found it is generally safer to use the default location, though.

Here’s an example showing one of my wood grain collections.
Screenshot - 8_21_2024 , 12_02_58 PM
And that collection in the Materials panel.
Screenshot - 8_21_2024 , 12_03_59 PM

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Thanks Dave. Now I remember. We’ve been through this before. I’m making notes this time.

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