Creating Textures in Google Sketchup Make

1 Pick Paint Bucket from the Tools menu

2 Pick "Create Material" button

3 Tick "Use texture image"

4 Browse to the TIF image saved on your computer

5 Modify Desciption & colours to suit

6 Custom Pattern is added to swatch list

7 Use fill tool to drop pattern inside a shape (in this example the pattern is not showing)

8 Pick Edit Tab

9 Change Scale to suit

10 Automatically updates the Google SU pattern

Visit this page for TIF files suitable for use with Google Sketchup

Download free custom hatch patterns from CADhatch.com here and use the following instructions to use them in your Google Sketchup drawing. Somke of our patterns are also listed in the Sketchup 3D warehouse