In the upper right, click the Create New Style button. SketchUp creates a copy of the currently active style in the In Model styles. Click the Select tab, click the In Model icon , and in the list of styles that appears, select your new style so that it’s the active style.

Your model’s template determines your model’s default settings. SketchUp includes several templates for common applications, like architecture, construction, urban planning, landscape architecture, woodworking, interior and production design, and 3D printing.

Your template determines a model’s default units of measurement. In each of SketchUp’s included templates, the default units reflect each template’s application. For example, 3D printing and woodworking require a high degree of precision, so the 3D printing and woodworking template units are either millimeters or inches. However, if you’re designing a building or a landscape, working in millimeters or inches would be annoying and impractical. That’s why those templates default to feet and inches or meters.

If the default templates aren’t quite to your liking, you can add your own custom touches and save them as a custom template file. Here’s a quick look at the types of things you can save to a template:

• All the settings in the Model Info dialog box: This dialog box sets the defaults for your model as a whole. You will find a quick introduction to this dialog box at the end of this section.
• Geometry you’ve created in the drawing area: For example, some templates include a 2D person standing at the axis origin. When you save geometry to a template, any new model based on the template includes the geometry you saved.
• Styles: In the Styles browser, you find bundled sets of styles or you can edit the face, edge, background, and watermark individually. See Choosing a Style for details.
• Shadows: Shadows are often a finishing touch on a model, but you can also use them to explore shadow behavior or simply enhance the contours of an object. See Communicating Your Designs for details. Keep in mind, however, that because shadows require extra memory, so they’re typically not turned on by default. This keeps your model light, as explained in Improving Performance

Changing your default template

You selected a default template when you first started SketchUp (as explained in Getting Started in SketchUp). If you ever want to change the default template, just follow these steps:

1. Select Window > Preferences (Microsoft Windows) or SketchUp > Preferences (Mac OS X).
2. In the sidebar on the left, select the Template option.
3. Select one of the templates in the Drawing Template list box. Or click the Browse button to navigate to a template that you’ve saved locally, select the template file, and click Open.
4. Click OK (Microsoft Windows) or simply close the dialog box (Mac OS X). The next time you create a new model file, SketchUp uses your new default template.

Creating a template

If you’re always making the same change or set of changes when you create a new model, you can save all those changes to a new template so that you can start creating your model right away.

To create a new template, follow these steps:

1. Create a new SketchUp file with your current default template.
2. Make only the modifications that you want to save with the template. Templates include all the settings in the Model Info dialog box, Style settings, and Shadow settings. You can also create any base geometry. For an overview of the Model Info dialog box, see the next section.
3. Select File > Save As Template.
4. Navigate to the location where you want to save your template.
5. Give the template a name.
6. Click the Save button.

After you save the template, you need to follow the steps in the preceding section to make the modified template your default template.

Exploring the Model Info dialog box

The Model Info dialog box is where you apply settings for your entire model, so it makes sense that templates reflect all the settings you make here. To open the Model Info dialog box, shown in the following figure, select Window > Model Info. To access the different types of settings, select an option from the sidebar on the left.

The following list introduces each of the options in the sidebar:

• Animation: If you animate scenes, as explained in Communicating Your Designs, the settings here set the timing for the transitions and delay between scenes.
• Classifications: If you use BIM (building information modeling) and classification data, as explained in Classifying Objects, you can import classification systems via this panel.
• Components: Set preferences for how components and groups appear when you’re editing inside the component or group context. You can also toggle the visibility of component axes. See Grouping Geometry and Developing Components and Dynamic Components for details.
• Credits: You can view who created a model or click Claim Credit to add the name of the SketchUp license owner to the model. If your model contains components, see who created the components, too. This feature is handy if you’re collaborating with a team to create a model, or if you upload or download models and components via the 3D Warehouse.
• Dimensions: Set the defaults for dimension text. See Adding Text to a Model.
• File: See basic data about the model file.
• Geo-location: Check whether your model is geolocated. If not, you can add a location via Google. SketchUp Pro users can also enter geographic coordinates manually. See Modeling Terrain and Other Rounded Shapes for an introduction to geolocated models.
• Rendering: You find a setting here for anti-aliased textures, which improves performance. See Improving Performance for more about customizing SketchUp to manage performance issues.
• Statistics: This pane keeps track of all the entities your model contains. You find tools for purging unused entities and fixing problems, too.
• Text: Set defaults for screen text and leader text, as explained in Adding Text to a Model.
• Units: Choose the default unit of measurement for your model. Start with the options in the Format drop-down list: Architectural, Decimal, Engineering, or Fractional. If you choose Decimal, you can also choose whether your model uses inches, feet, millimeters, centimeters, or meters as the default unit.

Optimized Storage in macOS Sierra and later* can save space by storing your content in iCloud and making it available on demand. When storage space is needed, files, photos, movies, email attachments, and other files that you seldom use are stored in iCloud automatically. Each file stays right where you last saved it, and downloads when you open it. Files that you’ve used recently remain on your Mac, along with optimized versions of your photos.

* If you haven't yet upgraded to macOS Sierra or later, learn about other ways to free up storage space.

Find out how much storage is available on your Mac

Choose Apple menu  > About This Mac, then click Storage. This is an overview of available storage space on your Mac, as well as the space used by different categories of files:

Click the Manage button to open the Storage Management window, pictured below. (The Manage button is available only in macOS Sierra or later.)

Manage storage on your Mac

The Storage Management window offers recommendations for optimizing your storage. If some recommendations are already turned on, you will see fewer recommendations.

Store in iCloud

Click the Store in iCloud button, then choose from these options:

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• Desktop and Documents. Store all files from these two locations in iCloud Drive. When storage space is needed, only the files you recently opened are kept on your Mac, so that you can easily work offline. Files stored only in iCloud show a download icon , which you can double-click to download the original file. Learn more about this feature.
  
• Photos. Store all original, full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud Photos. When storage space is needed, only space-saving (optimized) versions of photos are kept on your Mac. To download the original photo or video, just open it.
  
• Messages. Store all messages and attachments in iCloud. When storage space is needed, only the messages and attachments you recently opened are kept on your Mac. Learn more about Messages in iCloud.

Storing files in iCloud uses the storage space in your iCloud storage plan. If you reach or exceed your iCloud storage limit, you can either buy more iCloud storage or make more iCloud storage available. iCloud storage starts at 50GB for $0.99 (USD) a month, and you can purchase additional storage directly from your Apple device. Learn more about prices in your region.

Optimize Storage

Click the Optimize button, then choose from these options.

• Automatically remove watched movies and TV shows. When storage space is needed, movies or TV shows that you purchased from the iTunes Store and already watched are removed from your Mac. Click the download icon next to a movie or TV show to download it again.
  
• Download only recent attachments. Mail automatically downloads only the attachments that you recently received. You can manually download any attachments at any time by opening the email or attachment, or saving the attachment to your Mac.
  
• Don't automatically download attachments. Mail downloads an attachment only when you open the email or attachment, or save the attachment to your Mac.

Optimizing storage for movies, TV shows, and email attachments doesn't require iCloud storage space.

Empty Trash Automatically

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Empty Trash Automatically permanently deletes files that have been in the Trash for more than 30 days.

Reduce Clutter

Reduce Clutter helps you to identify large files and files you might no longer need. Click the Review Files button, then choose any of the file categories in the sidebar, such as Applications, Documents, Music Creation, or Trash.

You can delete the files in some categories directly from this window. Other categories show the total storage space used by the files in each app. You can then open the app and decide whether to delete files from within it.

Learn how to redownload apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books.

Where to find the settings for each feature

The button for each recommendation in the Storage Management window affects one or more settings in other apps. You can also control those settings directly within each app.

• If you're using macOS Catalina, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, click Apple ID, then select iCloud in the sidebar: Store in iCloud turns on the Optimize Mac Storage setting on the right. Then click Options next to iCloud Drive: Store in iCloud turns on the Desktop & Documents Folders setting. To turn off iCloud Drive entirely, deselect iCloud Drive.
  In macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click iCloud, then click Options next to iCloud Drive. Store in iCloud turns on the Desktop & Documents Folders and Optimize Mac Storage settings.
• In Photos, choose Photos > Preferences, then click iCloud. Store in iCloud selects iCloud Photos and Optimize Mac Storage.
• In Messages, choose Messages > Preferences, then click iMessage. Store in iCloud selects Enable Messages in iCloud.

• If you're using macOS Catalina, open the Apple TV app, choose TV > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Files. Optimize Storage selects “Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows.”
  In macOS Mojave or earlier, open iTunes, choose iTunes > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Advanced. Optimize Storage selects “Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows.”
• In Mail, choose Mail > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Accounts. In the Account Information section on the right, Optimize Storage sets the Download Attachments menu to either Recent or None.

Empty Trash Automatically: From the Finder, choose Finder > Preferences, then click Advanced. Empty Trash Automatically selects “Remove items from the Trash after 30 days.”

Other ways that macOS helps automatically save space

With macOS Sierra or later, your Mac automatically takes these additional steps to save storage space:

• Detects duplicate downloads in Safari, keeping only the most recent version of the download
• Reminds you to delete used app installers
• Removes old fonts, languages, and dictionaries that aren't being used
• Clears caches, logs, and other unnecessary data when storage space is needed

How to free up storage space manually

Even without using the Optimized Storage features of Sierra or later, you can take other steps to make more storage space available:

• Music, movies, and other media can use a lot of storage space. Learn how to delete music, movies, and TV shows from your device.
• Delete other files that you no longer need by moving them to the Trash, then emptying the Trash. The Downloads folder is good place to look for files that you might no longer need.
• Move files to an external storage device.
• Compress files.
• Delete unneeded email: In the Mail app, choose Mailbox > Erase Junk Mail. If you no longer need the email in your Trash mailbox, choose Mailbox > Erase Deleted Items.

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• When you duplicate a file on an APFS-formatted volume, that file doesn't use additional storage space on the volume. Deleting a duplicate file frees up only the space required by any data you might have added to the duplicate. If you no longer need any copies of the file, you can recover all of the storage space by deleting both the duplicate and the original file.
• If you're using a pro app and Optimize Mac Storage, learn how to make sure that your projects are always on your Mac and able to access their files.