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Paint Bucket Video: SketchUp Toolbar Series
To view the full tool set, turn on the "Large Tool Set".
Selecting the Paint Bucket Tool will open the Materials Browser.
This allows you to pick and edit materials to paint onto surfaces.
Simply click on a material, and click on surfaces to paint them.
You can select multiple surfaces to paint them at the same time.
The Materials Browser is slightly different for Windows and Mac users.
Let's briefly examine the basics of each.
On Windows, there are 2 main tabs to select and edit materials.
In the Select tab, you can browse material libraries included in SketchUp.
Just click on the material you want, then click on a surface to paint it there.
You can view materials used in your model by clicking on the house icon.
Select one of the materials in your model, then click on the Edit tab.
Here you can change the color, opacity, texture image, and other settings.
As you edit a material, the changes are reflected in your model.
On a Mac, there are several tabs that control color selection.
Select the brick icon to browse the material libraries.
Look through the categories to choose materials.
You can view materials used in your model by clicking on the house icon.
Double-click on a material to edit it.
This expands the browser, letting you edit the material, including the opacity.
Choose a color tab at the top to change the color, then make the adjustment.
We will cover these material browsers in more detail in other videos.
Use modifier keys to work faster as you explore material options.
The same material is on multiple surfaces, but is on separated geometry.
Holding the Shift key down while painting a new material
replaces all the previous material, regardless of where it is in the model.
Holding the Ctrl key [Option key] while painting a material,
replaces only adjacent (touching) surfaces with same material.
You can see here that only this countertop material was changed.
Because it was not touching the other countertop surfaces.
Let's reset the scene and try again.
Even though not all of this material is touching,
it is all part of geometry that is joined together.
Now hold both the Shift + Ctrl key [Option key] together.
This will paint all similar materials on joined geometry.
Let's review: holding the Shift key with the Paint Bucket Tool
replaces that material everywhere, regardless of material or geometry adjacency.
Holding down the Ctrl key [Option] relies on material adjacency.
Holding the Shift + Ctrl key [Option] together relies on geometry adjacency.
The last modifier key is the Alt key [Cmd key].
Press and hold this key to sample materials; release it to paint on another surface.
Visit Google's 3D Warehouse to find examples you can follow in SketchUp.