More useful Shift + Z

SketchUp Feature Requests
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I feel like it would be more intuitive for the “SHIFT + Z” zoom to take the camera to the extents of the group/component being worked on instead of the whole model? Not sure if this is something I can customise or would be a feature request however.

Also the shortcut “Camera/Standard Views/Top” seems to throw the camera out sometimes. Rather than aligning the camera above what is being viewed it seems to pick a random location often miles away from my original subject? (Thus my first comment wanting to be able to quickly zoom back)

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hello,

use or/and add a shortcut to view > component edit > hide rest of model.
That way, when activated, shift+z will zoom extent only to the group/component being edited

I personnally also added a shortcut to hide similar components

example :
hide rest

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That works perfectly, thank you!

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This suggests you may have some stray geometry floating at a distance from your model.

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No it does happen on large models but this is kind of a separate issue from the zoom extents. I have the Camera/Standard Views/Top shortcut to X but then I press that it will sometimes just flick to a different area from what I was looking at when normally it just orbits the camera into a plan view. Not sure the cause for this but I just wanted a quick workaround…

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I would also suggest that you add scenes to your model to get back fast to views like a plan view.

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FWIW, I have Z set for Zoom Extents and Shift+Z set to Zoom Selection. Between those and H for Hide rest of model. I don’t have any trouble quickly zooming to whatever I need.

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