It looks like you hit the rather strange text bug. It seems that on some occasions when the geometry that a text label is attached to gets deleted, the text flies off to infinity. Nobody has yet been able to reproduce it consitently.
One way that sometimes works is to attempt to select the model, that you can’t see, by using a selection box in the middle of the screen. If you do get it you can copy and paste it into another blank model.
Actually, a reproducible example was posted not too long ago! Hopefully the developers were paying attention and are working on a fix, though as usual they won’t comment until they release a fix.
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Maybe you can even select everything with Ctrl+A, and deselect everything you see with a selection box, to select the corrupted text only. If this works you might be able to delete it from the model and not have to make a new model.
Another way to get around the text issue is to run this snippet in the Ruby console, save and re-open the model (might require SU restart).
Sketchup.active_model.active_entities.grep(Sketchup::Text).each { |t| t.erase! if t.point.to_a.any?(&:nan?) }
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Another great option but I’ve found this one tends not to work when it’s the flying text bug. It seems impossible to grab the text responsible, whereas it is often possible to select the model itself and copy paste it.
That makes sense though. Ctrl+A is dependent of location as it it doesn’t select anything hidden by a section cut.
Interesting, I didn’t realise that happens with section cuts.
Something else to look out for when hunting down these rogue elements.
interesting indeed, while cmd+A (or CTRL+A) only selects all entities in front of the section cut, the panels were you can select all leader text (or screen) and all dimensions does not take in account for it…
they select it all.
I always use this option for selecting ‘rogue’ texts and dimensions.
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