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Design materials for the cabinets and counters

Design materials for the cabinets and counters - SketchUp Tutorial

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Design materials for the cabinets and counters

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- [Instructor] We can dramatically improve the appearance of the model by adding materials. In this video, we will design a material for the cabinets and a couple of other materials for the countertops. To begin the process, press b or click on the paint bucket tool up here. On the Mac operating system you'll see a floating colors window. In the Window's operating system, you'll see this over in the default tray. And the interfaces look a little bit different. On the Mac there are different color pickers that are available up here. In Windows there's just one color picker that's built in. And that would be this one here. Click the brick icon to go to SketchUp's native color picker. Then you'll see a drop down list of different material libraries that ship with the program. And we certainly could select any one of the materials in here by clicking on it. And then assigning it to an object in the model. But I'd like to design a new material from scratch using one of the texture map…

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