See video first I’ve been having this problem in which a material is automatically duplicated when apply. I was able to pin down an replicate the issue after several trials. First of all, it only happens with materials that have transparency. When a material with transparency is created and applie…

Also see this thread: [image] SketchUp on Mac is Creating Additional Swatches and Painting Solid Color Pro does she use Color>New texture ? or Duplicate? With duplicate this happens when you apply the (duplicate) texture, directly after you have edited it. Select some oth…

Although I can see the similarities with that thread. The issue I’m having is a different one, unrelated. It only happens with transparent materials. And only in materials previously saved in the file.

This has been happening since v. 2018. I’m on a Mac, everything current, and I tried it with no plugins loaded to no avail. It’s very annoying.

Im on MAC os 10.13.4 and SU18. This happened to me too! I checked my materials window and I had 10 different but identical glass materials. Every time I apply the material it is duplicated! Super annoying! SU needs to fix this immediately. All my windows are now using a different material when using…

Hi there Shawn. I have not find any way to fix it. For now I just don’t any transparent materials until I model everything. Then, if I want to show it or render it I make a copy of the file and change the material transparency. It is indeed very annoying.

The very annoying work around I use is to change the color of the duplicate, then use ThomThom’s “Material Replacer” and finally delete the unwanted copy. Annoying! Ralph

Any actual sketchup devs in here? This problem is HUGE. Causing serious problems and causing our office to rethink using sketchup on our 30 machines. This needs to get fixed immediately.

Please resolve this issue! Very very annoying!

We’ve been discussing longer term fixes, but some expert users tell us they use TIG’s PurgeAll extension as a workaround, and assign a keyboard shortcut to it to make it easy: SketchUp Plugins | PluginStore | SketchUcation

Very annoying! +1 for fixing it, +1 for better material editor. Thanks!

Materials with transparency automatically duplicate when being applied

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MikeWayzovski April 20, 2018, 11:31am 2

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