Auto rotate material texture with 1 click

When the models have multiple textures and you want to rotate the material accordingly, use the rotate material texture tool

Video tutorial:

Steps by steps:

• Click tool rotate material texture – click on the material surface you want to rotate
• Texture rotation is very fast, you don’t need to use default texture rotation of sketchup anymore

  

Why the one-click tool beats SketchUp’s built-in rotation

SketchUp’s native way to turn a texture is to right-click the face, choose Texture > Position, and drag the green pin around the red one. It works, but it is slow and has real traps that this tool skips:

• If all four pins show up yellow, you are in Stretch (Distort) mode and the green-pin rotate gesture simply won’t work — you first have to right-click and toggle Fixed Pins back on. This single setting trips up most users who think “rotate is broken.”
• The native Position grip only operates on a single flat face, so a tube, sphere, or any softened/curved surface can’t be rotated as one piece — you would have to unhide the hidden geometry and position each triangle, then re-sample with the eyedropper. The one-click tool sets the same orientation across the picked surface instead of fighting per-triangle pins.
• In recent SketchUp 2026 releases the on-face Position gizmo can also balloon to fill the viewport on high-DPI displays, which makes precise dragging awkward — clicking once avoids the gizmo entirely.
• The red pin is the rotation origin, not the green one, so a native rotate also shifts where the texture starts tiling; a clean one-click rotate keeps the pattern anchored.