I just changed the names of materials in a custom color collection I made. (C:\Users\User-01\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2018\SketchUp\Materials\Custom-01) But the color names in sketchup are not updating. How do I fix this? SketchUp Pro 2018 (18.0.16975 64-bit)

Check this thread: [image] Help with custom materials folder location (driving me nuts) SketchUp Your problems stem from incorrect assumptions. No you didn’t. You changed the SKM filename, not the material’s name. The SKM is a zip archive with XML files and images inside…

Renaming SKM files does NOT rename the material they contain. This is set up within the SKM, which is actually a ZIP file… e.g. SUC_Brick_001.skm contains [image] The ‘ref’ folder contains any associated texture image file. The ‘thumbnail’ is just that. The two document ‘xml’ files contain re…

[image] TIG: e.g. name=“SUC_Brick_001” <dp:title>SUC_Brick_001</dp:title> Ah ha! I didn’t change that part in "documentProperties.xml" … I’ll need to fix the code example.

I have a lot to change so I will just save new ones and remove the old ones. Thanks.

Material Names Not Updating

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MikeWayzovski August 10, 2018, 4:17pm 2

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