Is there a way to restart the section numbering at ‘1’? The only I know of is to copy the entire model and paste it into a new file. Thanks.
Currently No, it annoys me too and I have asked for it to be fixed but as yet…
You can hack the pref file…
“SharedPreferences.json”
Edit the entry under
"Preferences": {
…
"ShowSectionToolDlg": false,
to read
"ShowSectionToolDlg": true,
…
If there’s no entry add one in the Preferences ‘block’ !
To find where the file is use this in the Ruby Console:
UI.openURL("file:///#{File.dirname(Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins"))}")
The opened folder contains the .json pref file…
You can edit it with a plain text editor, like Notepad++ or TextWrangler…
This really should be fixed - many months ago several of us petitioned the developers - it just needs an extra toggle option in the user’s preferences dialog !
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Anything changed since August?
This comes up often enough that I almost wish for an extension that will "copy entire model geometry into a new file “automatically” 
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It’s not about copying the geometry. It’s about setting up a clean template for a specific phase of project based on already existing file after deleting all of the contents. Clean is a key word here.
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