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# Material Library

> A cloud-based central material library synced through GingerBIM — one source of truth for your project's materials. Work in progress.

<Warning>
  The Material Library is **work in progress** — parts of it are appearing in the connector now, and this page will grow as the feature rolls out.
</Warning>

## The problem it solves

When several people work on the same project in their own local SketchUp or Rhino files, each of them ends up creating materials locally — the same concrete, the same timber, made slightly differently in every file. The result is duplicates, naming drift, and a design language that quietly diverges across the team.

## The idea

A **cloud-based central material library**, synced through GingerBIM: the project's materials live in one place, and every team member's SketchUp or Rhino file syncs against it. One definition of each material, shared by everyone — a single source of truth for the project's design language, in the modelling tools and in GingerBIM itself.

## What's in the connector today

The connector has a **Material Library** tab alongside the component buckets, with an action to add your SketchUp or Rhino materials to the project's library. Full two-way syncing — pulling the library's materials back into every teammate's file — is still being built out.


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