When an object already has a material applied and you then scale it, the textures get stretched or squashed along with the geometry, and resetting each one back to its original scale by hand is slow and tedious. The auto-rescale texture tool restores original texture scale in SketchUp in a single click. This happens for […]
Applying the same texture rotation angle to every face in a SketchUp model is one of the fastest ways to make a scene look artificial. Real wood planks, stone tiles, and fabric panels never align perfectly — each piece has its own grain direction, cut angle, or manufacturing variation. The Auto Rotate Material plugin for […]
When models have multiple scales, to fix and restore the original texture scale in SketchUp, use the auto restore texture scale tool The reason this matters: in SketchUp (through the current 2026 release) the Scale tool does not just resize geometry — it bakes the scale factor into the group/component transform, so any texture inside […]
The materials applied to your SketchUp objects all live in the Materials panel under the In Model tab. Instead of removing them one by one, you can delete all materials in SketchUp in a single action with the delete all materials tool — the selected geometry falls back to SketchUp’s default front/back material. How to […]
When you want to copy multiple material layers of multiple models, use the auto material duplicate tool to copy materials between SketchUp files. This matters more than it sounds: on Windows the Materials browser is bound to the active SKP file, so a material you sample with the eyedropper in one open model cannot be […]
When you want to set the same material for multiple objects, you have to select each model to pick the material, use the material tool to apply material to multiple objects faster Video Tutorial: Paint Selected Objects in SketchUp Automatically Steps by steps : Select all objects – Material tool – Paint to Selected Objects […]
Smoothing and softening edges in SketchUp controls how the surface of your 3D model looks when rendered or exported. Whether you want to hide the facets on a curved surface or reveal construction lines for editing, SketchUp gives you several tools — all available in the free version. This guide covers every method from the […]
When you only want to hide edges in SketchUp but don’t want to delete them, use the auto-hide all edges plugin. In SketchUp itself, the equivalent native command is right-click > Hide (or the eraser with Shift held). Note the difference most users miss: Hide keeps the two faces on either side of the edge […]
To delete or hide edges, into the object, which is time consuming , Let’s use 3dshouse’s Remove Unused Edges cleanup tool to help us do it faster Manually cleaning a model means deciding, edge by edge, whether to erase, hide, or soften each line — and in SketchUp these are three different operations, not one. […]
Merging disconnected edge segments into a single polyline entity is one of those SketchUp fundamentals that seems trivial until you realize how much friction it removes from everyday modeling. The operation — called Weld Edges since SketchUp 2020.2 — converts any chain of connected edges into a single Curve entity, which SketchUp treats as one […]