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Hello guys and welcome to this new class,

where we're going to see another important tool,

as it is the model info window.

We'd have two ways.

In order to open this panel,

we can go over window model info just above preferences,

and then this window pops up.

And here we have

all the different categories available for us.

The other option is to go

down here and click on this cycle.

One-click and the model info window is opened as well.

As you can see, we have different categories,

animation classifications, components, credits,

dimensions, file, geo-location, rendering,

statistics, text, and units.

We will see all of them during the course.

And in this class we will focus

just on the last one, units.

We saw how when we choose a template,

we are choosing a unit as well

for our SketchUp document, right?

But we can change that unit once

our document is opened and we should

do it from here, model info units.

Then if we move over format and we expand this window,

will find different options,

architectural, decimal, engineering, and fractional.

This is up to you.

I am an European guy,

so I am getting used to work with the decimal format.

And besides decimal, we

can choose if we want to work with meters,

centimeters, millimeters, et cetera, et cetera.

Normally I work with meters,

but we can do it as well with

centimeters depending on the project.

If we're doing a big project,

maybe make more sense to work with meters.

And if we are designing e.g.

I don't know, I kind of vase or something like that.

It's small. We can choose centimeters.

Take in mind that we can change the units so easily.

So don't worry, once our length is 2M,

We have to display the precision.

Decimals are okay.

We don't need more. And then we'd have to do the

same with the area and the volume,

not just with a length.

So it makes sense that the area now we choose

square meters and I'm volume meters as well.

I strongly recommend you to have marked

this both options enabled length

is snapping and display units format.

And then we jump into these Another Label angle units.

Again, we can adjust precision 0.0 is okay,

but let's say 0.00 more

precision enable snapping, always mark.

And this 15 degrees means that when

we are drawing an angle every 15 degrees,

the tool is going to stop in order to mark

those 15 degrees and make our lives easier.

We can change it, but 15,

in my opinion is okay.

So as you can see, this panel is very intuitive.

Once we have chosen all of our preferences,

we can close it.

And if I measure something, e.g.

this high looked at in our measurement bar,

we can read 8.00 m. So time to say goodbye.

And in the next episode,

I will give you a piece of

information which I think that it's very useful.

And it is about how to open different sketch up

files and copy different elements

from one file to another.

This is something that normally it should be super easy,

but clearness gets up.

It is a little bit tricky.

So in order that you don't

have problems during the course,

we will learn how to do it early when we are just in

the beginning of the course and then

we will not find any travel in the future.