Hello,
I’ve had a few people try to help me with this, but I cannot figure it out. When I apply patterned fabrics, they look ok, but then when I click out of the group the fabric is miniscule. I’ve tried changing the repeats and nothing. I also can’t change the texture position unless I turn on hidden geometry and then it only changes the little, teeny sliver of hidden geometry I have highlighted. I’m not sure if you can do audio on this forum but can someone explain this to me as a beginner? I’m so frustrated. I uploaded a SU file with the chair and the fabric hoping that might help show what I’m talking about. Every time I try to upload a video on here it says the video is too large so that’s the best I can do. Please remember I’m very new at this and need a thorough explanation. Any help is greatly appreciated. 
Chair Help.skp (3.1 MB)
You have two groups that are nested. That keeps them from being considered as solid groups. Normally, when you apply a texture, you have to open the group or component for editing and then select the face where you want to apply the texture. Did you model the chair or did you get it from the 3d Warehouse? I noticed there was already a texture applied, but when I opened one group for editing there was another texture which I presume is the one you want.
Hi there,
Yes, I downloaded it from the 3D warehouse. The texture I want is the orange geometric. I thought I was opening the group and applying it to the face. I must not be though.
Okay, hopefully someone like @DaveR can come along and help. I think that first you have to work on the chair and make the groups solid before you edit, select a face, and apply a texture.
Thank you. I think he tried to help before, but it was a little over my head, lol. Thanks again!
Hi Dave. Let me show you what the fabric should look like. That’s how it’s looking for me too. The scale is way off for some reason.
Chair Help .1.skp (3.1 MB)
One screenshot looks like Dave’s, the other one has a different texture on the seat (but only when it’s in the edit mode). What I did is separate the two nested groups. The skp has the two groups separated and both are solid. The texture shown when the separated chair seat is in edit mode matches the texture you showed.
I just made the backrest look like the seat. Maybe @mihai.s will give you better instruction.
Thanks, Dave! I answered her yesterday in the other post and offered a simple method to change the texture.
MAVS, try to learn the basics of SketchUp at Campus first - learn.sketchup.com
Hi Mihai. Thank you for your video. Again, I’m very new to sketchup and I tried to follow your video but it was very quick and had no verbal explanation so I had a hard time duplicating it. I’m in the very really stages of using the software. I did have success getting the fabric on the chair but when I click out of the group the pattern on the fabric is tiny.
Thank you for the second video, I just saw it. I have learned the basics of Sketchup and was just certified to be proficient but I am having trouble with this particular issue. Forgive me for not being an expert, I just started this journey in January.
In your desire to change that texture, you try to skip a lot of steps in the learning process, that’s why I wrote that it’s better to learn the basics first. By basic, I mean, among other things, the properties of the edges (solid, soft, smooth, etc.), of the faces and of the materials.
You can set the video speed to 0.5x or you can easily pause the video when you can’t understand something.
I used the model you shared, and only the texture I prepared to be seamless and I also showed you how you can change its size.
In the video there are only 5 clicks to make and change a number for the desired size.
- click on the face to select it (inside the group);
- click on the white rectangle (Entity Info panel) to change the material and select the new material;
- click on the new material (Material panel), then Edit;
- click on the texture and change it with yours;
- click on one of the two numbers to change the dimensions of the texture as you like.
Thank you. I really appreciate this.
Are you using Photoshop to make these edits?
Affinity photo. but yes, it’s similar.
you could check websites like the sketchup texture club for seamless images, or architexture (free-ish extension)
or use your existing photos but make them seamless first.
Fantastic. Thank you
hi MAVS. This happens a lot with 3D Warehouse models – they are imported from some other 3d software and the scale gets weird. So, what you do is explode the groups and
then re-group them into parts that make sense. This way the scale will be reset and the texture will like it’s supposed to. Also, make sure the material size is not huge or tiny. I’ve attached your file fixed here. Also, I adjusted the seat material with a plugin by Fredo6 called ThruPaint, which really comes in handy for this kind of thing (adjusting textures on curved surfaces).
Chair Help_log.skp (3.7 MB)
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it.