Texture Optimization in SketchUp

The Arrigo Silva blog has a good article discussing how to size your textures appropriately for your SketchUp model.

[ Arrigo Silva ]

There is also a plug-in by that can help you find textures that may have an inapropriate resolution for your model:

[ Goldilocks @ sketchucation ]

14 Wood Textures @ cadyou.com

14 nice wood textures via Cadyou: User: madhav

12 Count Color Pencil SketchUp Palette

Here's another small color library for SketchUp.

Download prismacolor_12ct.zip


Render by Podium. (I know, too sharp!)

Arroway Wood Textures Vol. 1

These textures were downloaded from Arroway Textures. Recently, each Arroway texture was made available for download as a scaled-down/cropped version intended for testing and private use only.

The following image is composed of the free sample images from their Wood - Volume 1 collection. Most of these textures are 3000px wide by 360px high png images. Each comes with the main texture image, a bumpmap image, and a reflectivity image. Even though they are only "sample" textures, they are high quality and may be all you need for your non-commercial renderings.

DuPont Corian Color Palettes for SketchUp

DuPont Corian has a collection available colors for its Corian product posted on the 3D Warehouse.

SketchUp Crayon Colors Material Library

Just goofing-off today, I created a SketchUp materials library according to this Wikipedia article.



Click image to download 133 standard crayon colors for SketchUp.



Download Crayons.zip

I have a couple other material libraries available also.

Free Paper (and other) Textures

Jacob of Six Revisions is offering a set of large (2592 x 3872 jpg's) grungy paper textures free for personal and commercial use.

And don't forget to check out Jacob's other great tectures:

• Red Rocks
• Cardboard
• Rough Textures

CADYOU: Free SketchUp Models, Textures & CAD Blocks

quicklink: http://www.cadyou.com

Tom Moor has launched a new site aimed at providing free, high-quality content for professional designers, architects, engineers, or anyone.

In Tom's words,

"it [cadyou] was born out of frustration for having to hunt through mountains of rubbish files, both for sketchup and autocad to get to the good stuff."

cadyou already has a nice collection of content; however, the success of the site really depends on user contributions. Anyone can sign up and upload content as long as they follow the cadyou community guidelines. Uploaded content can be licensed under one of the Creative Commons licenses.

http://www.cadyou.com

Armstrong Vinyl Floor Tiles

Sketchup materials library of 12x12 vinyl floor tiles.

Download download