In the middle of this experimenting and writing, DanRathbun chimes in with some high level stuff that may be too heavy for the OP right now. You see it’s complex and beautiful and must do wonderful things, but since you’ve never been exposed to it you don’t have a clue how to make it go so you end up pushing it… ( < caveman meets car analogy) You see it has wheels, so it must roll somehow. It’s really akin to not knowing how a car works. Just gets old, the complexity of this thing (SU), and the methods that must be pursued to find the answers. The malfunction more so on my part, because of ignorance, but as I always say, “How am I supposed to know about something if I don’t know I’m supposed to know about it?” Which leads to a rather pointed, accusatory question I’ve seen made in other places in this forum, even as recently as today: Why do the makers of this software provide no instruction, in the form of a user manual? Please leave that as rhetorical. …And 20 minutes later: So, this ability for a group/component/container to be assigned a different than default color/texture for new faces was unknown to me, but it is the malfunction. Now on to the other possibility, which is the behavior for new faces to inherit properties of the container in which their drawn… (It seems to indicate that the original default face colors are in effect.) Maybe at a later time I’ll learn more about it. …a few minutes later: Ok, so this Styles Panel looks interesting, but as I’m not familiar with what’s going on here, I’m going to decline to change anything, and in fact close it up now, unless someone can convince me that I need to understand it right now. Is this is a universal setting? Having opened Styles Panel just now for the first time ever, this is my first introduction to it. No, I haven’t changed the default color in the Styles Panel. The color of the next new face you draw is going to be the default color for front/back faces. Adding Colors and Textures with Materials | SketchUp Help.Applying Colors, Photos, Materials, and Textures | SketchUp Help.So normally new users will see material rendering applied only to faces.) (Note that edge rendering can be overridden in the style settings and is usually set to “All same color” which is usually black. ![]() This is a rendering function and does not result in actual material assignments to any of the child faces or edges.
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