Sketchup Web - "Ty_Skin" rename and dev-names for colours

Support redirected me to post this here.

I’m using the free version to model my backyard. When I went to change the material of the areas, I found a pinkish material named “Ty_Skin”.

I’m sure this is common knowledge nowadays, but once upon a time Crayola had a similarly colored crayon that they had named ‘Flesh’. They fixed this by re-naming it ‘Peach’.

I wonder if Sketchup could do the same?

On the other hand, why do the materials have developer-style short names anyhow? Shouldn’t they just be solid colour names, like Red, Brown, Green, etc? It’s a bit of an odd duck amongst the really nice interface you’ve put together. I’ve checked in both Firefox and Chrome.

Those materials are named as such because they are used on the scale figure and for no other reason. If you delete the scale figure from the model space you can then purge the unused component and then purge unused materials and get rid of all of those.

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Ah! That adds the missing context for why that texture was named that. Appreciate the explanation, and thanks for the quick response!