Mouse wheel moves too far

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I was having trouble with a tiny slice I wanted to remove from a curved solid. So I scaled the object 10 times. When I made the slice, the sliced area failed to create a flat surface. So I backed up (undo) and scaled 1000 times and made the slice. The slice still failed and I undid back again. I chose another approach to make the slice.

Now, however, when I zoom in and out with the mouse wheel, suddenly, my model is teeny-tiny, or I’ve zoomed past the model. I’ve seen suggestions that you have to be over a part of your model for the zoom function to work predictably. This has never been the case before and is not the case in other models that I’ve created. I opened several and when you zoom over space, the model zooms the same as when I have my pointer over a component of the model. This is, in fact, important to placing your model on your screen so that you can work on a portion you want to work on.

Any ideas why this has occurred? Can I “fix” this in this model? Or must I start the model over.

This is the offending model. I wonder if, when you open it, it exhibits this behavior?Wall Clock.skp (320.3 KB)

Here’s a recent model that does not exhibit this behavior: Shaker Stool.skp (1.7 MB)

BTW, I was following the excellent book SketchIUp, A Design Guide for Woodworkers by Joe Zeh. I am using SU Pro 2016

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Hi Ken,
You’ve got a large face hidden over a hundred feet away from the object near the origin. I deleted it and things seem to work well.

Shep

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Cat it really be that simple? I swear I did a zoom extents and did not find it.

Thank you!

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This is an example of the usefulness of the outliner.

S

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I cannot find this object in my original. How did you find it? Group then???

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I right clicked on group in the outliner, selected un-hide, then used zoom extents.

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Got it! Again, Thanks a ton.