Stone Designer Textures for Sketchup: installation and use
Overview
Start by watching our 3-minute Stone Designer video tutorial.
The tutorial video quickly outlines several important tips and tricks for creating CAD textures in our Stone Designer tool and downloading the textures to use in your CAD and Rendering software.
This tutorial will show you step-by-step instructions for installing and using these texture files in Sketchup. Separate tutorials are available for AutoCAD and Revit.
DOWNLOAD THE FILES
This is Stone Designer user interface.
Following the Stone Designer tutorial, you can play around with the settings to obtain the required textures for your Sketchup project.
After customizing your stone design patterns, click “Save,” select “Texture,” and then click “Download.” This will download the stone texture file to your computer.
You can find the texture file in your downloads folder. Move them to the project folder.
Install in Sketchup
Open the Spetchup Project file where you wish to use the material texture.
We will use this sample project to demonstrate the application on this highlighted floor.
Go to the “File” Tab and select “Import”.
Select the downloaded material texture.
Check Texture from “Use Image As”.
Click “Import”.
The material texture is applied to the selected floor surface.
Next, we need to scale the material texture as per its size size in Stone Designer.
Click the floor surface.
The Choose Paint dialog will display.
Select the texture and Edit.
Unlock the proportion by clicking on this “∝” and scale the texture image to the Stone Designer size
The size is 77.5” x 100.7” as specified in the downloaded texture file name.
Enter these size values.
Cplick “OK” to close the Edit Material Browser and the Choose Paint tab.
The texture is applied
