Can't get rhino to create an embedded textures folder

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I am trying to share a rhino 6 file with someone on another computer. When they open the file the textures are missing (because they are saved locally to my computer I think). I have tried saving the file with the ‘save textures’ tick box on, however no embedded textures folder is created when i do this. I don’t have any search paths saved in the Document Properties either. Please can someone help me find a way to force rhino to create an embedded textures folder or to batch save all the textures to a chosen folder?

Thanks!

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Hello - try SaveAs to a new name with textures saved - does that work?

-Pascal

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Hi Pascal, thanks for your quick response. I have tried that but it does not work. My computer just never seems to create the embedded texture file with any rhino files.

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Hello- it will not make anything on your computer, it should on a computer where the file is opened and the textures do not already exist.

-Pascal

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But the textures are missing when I open the file on another computer, and I cannot re link the textures because they are saved on my computer.

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Rhino can embed the textures inside the 3dm file.
I think only the OBJ file format used a separate folder for textures.

If the textures used in the model are in the same folder as the 3dm, Rhino will find them embedded or not.

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Hi John, thanks for you response. I just exported it as an OBJ and it saved all the textures in that folder which is a good workaround! I can now share that folder with the rhino file. Thanks!

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To use them you either need to browse into that folder to find the materials, or copy then contents into the same folder as the 3dm.

Does that make sense?

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Yes thanks. It just will take a very long time to copy each of the textures from the different locations into a folder. But the OBJ export worked a dream so thank you for the help.

Annoyingly in the materials tab it is possible to ‘save to file’ with a single texture but not with multiple, so it would be useful to allow this.