Textures (and other bitmap images)
How to get textures and other images out of SketchUp.

Other Images
The way to get other images out of SketchUp is to select them and choose Use as Material from the contextual menu (Option-click on them, or click with the right mouse button). Then treat them as textures.

Overview
SketchUp stores its textures with a path reference to where the texture was when it was imported. Thus we can say that it has two different types of textures:

1. Textures that exist on your computer at the path stated.

2. Textures that no longer exist at the path stated, (or never existed on your computer).

If you import all your own textures and never move them you probably will have all type 1. textures. If you use a lot of clip art from the net you are likely to run into into type 2. textures from other computers, other operating systems, etc.

Unfortunately, textures exist in many formats, including the following:

.png .jpg .gif .tif .psd and no extension at all

Method 1 - Duplicate the materials list
1. Show the Colors Window, press the button on the toolbar, or choose Window -> Colors

2. Click the house, so the popUpMenu next to it reads Colors in Model

3. Choose Duplicate... from the List PopUpMenu

4. Press Return

This will save (some of) the textures from your model as .tif files in the folder:

~/Library/Application Support/Sketchup/Textures/

where ~/ is your home folder. This is enough for SU2POV 2.2.3 to find them properly.

Method 2 - Export as OBJ
** COMING SOON ** How to get textures out of SketchUp by exporting as obj .

File -> Export -> 3d Model...

Method 3 - Export as 3ds
** COMING SOON ** How to get textures out of SketchUp by exporting as 3ds

File -> Export -> 3d Model...

Purging materials
How to purge unused materials from SketchUp.

1. Show the Colors Window, press the button on the toolbar, or choose Window -> Colors

2. Click the house, so the popUpMenu next to it reads Colors in Model

3. Choose Purge Unused from the List PopUpMenu

This can be seen in a movie here

FAQs & Support
If you're having trouble with SU2POV, please see our technical support information. If you require further assistance, please Mark Horner via email.