Why does color appear different on default material?

[davethomaspilot]

I can paint the segments of the screw to a new color. But, I’d like to understand why they look different–I think they are both “default”:

screw-4x40x.75 pan head.skp (614.7 KB)

[mihai.s]

Problem with textures: most textures appear striped

Faces in Sketchup have front sides and back sides. With the style you are using the default front face color is white while the back face color is blue. Best practice is to ensure only white front faces are exposed. There are a number of reasons for that. One reason is mixed face orientation makes texture/material management difficult. Another common reason has to do with rendering. Some rendering applications won’t render exposed back faces even if they have materials applied to them. To corre…

[DaveR]

The darker faces are back faces. Those are inside out.

Here I’ve changed the back face color.

[davethomaspilot]

Is there an easy way to flip inside out?

[DaveR]

Select the incorrectly oriented faces, right click on them, choose Reverse Faces.

[DaveR]

Is this supposed to be a usable screw?

There are alignment issues with the sections of the threads.

[davethomaspilot]

Thanks for pointing that out.