Material editor in the mac version

SketchUp
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…Is kind of a mess. I have to click edit on a material to even see it’s name and once it’s being edited, if I click on another material, the editor doesn’t move over to the new material. The windows version was perfect, it made for an easy efficient workflow. Why was it changed??

The two versions of sketchup should be as similar as possible so if we have to move from one to another (especially in a professional setting) we can do so effortlessly. Now it feels like I am trying to learn a different language.

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It wasn’t changed. It’s Apple’s Color Picker.

Many of the other differences are due to operating system differences, too. I use SketchUp on both PC and Mac. There’s things that are different certainly and some things I like better on one over the other but it’s not just SketchUp that is different between the two so I think you just have to get used to it.

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Im not talking about the color picker. Im talking about how you have to keep on clicking edit material in order to get anywhere. It doesn’t make for a good workflow and I dont know how anyone could think it would. You’re telling me that there is something about MacOS where sketchup can’t have a simple, intuitive material editor like on the PC??

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No. You put words in my mouth. The materials editor is the Apple supplied product.

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on a mac, once you ‘click the brick’ you are in the SU material editor, it’s all code written by SU…

you have left the ‘basic’ Apple Color Picker used by nearly all mac apps…

once you ‘click on the house’ your in the ‘model materials’ a ‘double click’ or a ‘right click’ >> ‘edit’ opens the selected material for editing…

or if you ‘right click’ a material in the active model context >> Texture >> Edi texture Image it opens in your editor…

where are you seeing multiple clicks to edit?

I prefer the mac version and find the PC one totally unintuitive whenever I am forced to use it…

john

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We are each entitled to our own preferences, but unlike John, I find the Mac version to be unnecessarily confusing and unintuitive.

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Steve, I will certainly agree that the information on how to use the mac version is extremely lacking…

but as a long time mac user, I find it less confusing than the PC version [when I’ve used it under Parallels]…

john