I have created some styles which I want to reuse in my models, and saved them in a folder outside of the SKU structure (mainly for ease when upgrading). However, I’ve added a new one today, and it doesn’t appear in the favourites window. Any ideas?
A new style or a new style folder?
What happens if you quit and restart SketchUp?
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No changes when I restart Sketchup. In fact I’ve now noticed that the file names of the styles don’t match the names listed in the style finder window in SketchUp. Any ideas?
I have some styles which have different names in the folder than they show in the Styles panel but they show the same name in the collection and at the top when selected. It’s odd that yours shows a different name. How did you create these styles?
Can you share the styles with me? Collect them into a zip file and share that. If you don’t want to make them public send me a PM. Click on my name to do that.
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Archive.zip (4.0 MB)
Hi
I’ve had a mad flurry of work recently, so just digging into this issue again. I’ve updated to SKU2024 and the issue still persists, so I need to sort it out. I’ve uploaded the styles in question. For examle, in the folder I have ‘Arty 1 no background’, but in the SKU style browser I can only see ‘Arty 1’ which still has the orginal backgound. I’ve created them all in SKU via the edit function of the style tray. Any ideas or suggestions very much welcome!
When you edited the Arty 1 style to Arty 1 no background, exactly what steps did you follow?
Were you trying to edit the styles from their collection or did you select the styles to get them “in model” and then edit the In Model styles and the save them back to the collection. In order to make edits correctly you can only edit in model styles (same as with editing textures and components). After making the changes either update the style or choose Create New Style. Then, to add the edited style to your collection, switch to Thumbnail view, open the secondary pane and drag the thumbnails from In Model to the collection. I created two new styles without watermarks from Arty 1 and Arty 2. I assume that’s what you meant by “no background” since there are no backgrounds in the Arty 1 and Arty 2 styles to start with. Everything looks as expected on my end. See what you get.
TRGD v2.zip (4.0 MB)
It’s a while ago since I did it, but from memory I applied ‘Arty 1’ to a model, chose create new and then chose the ‘Edit’ function to remove the background watermark. I then saved it to the location of the original style. However, trying to re-create these steps, I don’t seem to be able to save a style to that location so just another unsolved mystery to solve!
In your SketchUp Preferences, what folder-path is given for Styles ?
If it’s not what you expect then change it…
It’s exactly where I set it.
Need more info.
If I create a new style it’s saved to my model. When I try to save it to any file location on my computer I get the error message.
By what method are you trying to save the style?
What happens if you do this:
I have the same issue as you do on Mac - IIRC the method Dave suggests here works - although I seem to remember needing to close SketchUp and start again to see the ones I saved, but it’s been a while since I needed to do this.
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Hi Dave,
Yes, ‘background’ in this instance was the watermark, not SKU def of a background.
When I edit a style I can see that it’s saved in the model. If I drag and drop to the collection nothing happens. I’ve been doing a right click and using ‘Save as’ to the file location.
Are you looking at the list view or the thumbnail view like I directed?