Sketchup 2023 Zoom to Nowhere

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First of all, I just upgraded to 2023 Pro and I am seriously not impressed (especially not for the money!). 2017 free was more stable.

I was working with my model and it suddenly flashed and then the display is just blue sky. If I use Edit > Select All, I still see that my entities exist. But Zoom Extents does nothing. I cannot get back to any of the objects in my model at all. Any clue how to resolve this?

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One trick is to open the Outliner, select something there, right-click and select “zoom selection” from the context menu.
If you post the model here or online, people could take a look at it and possibly find what has caused the camera to move to outer space.

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Thanks for your response. Sorry to be thick, but I can find no tool called the “Outliner”. I am not sure what you are referring to. Can you tell me where it is found in the menu structure? Thx.

Edit: The outliner is conspicuously absent from my Default Tray…
Second Edit: Ok, found it. And… drumroll… Does not zoom to selection

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Enable it in Window>Default Tray…

Edit:

Share the .skp file so we can help you get it straightened out.

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Stuart Frame.skp (87.6 KB)

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Here you go.
Stuart Frame fixed.skp (100.0 KB)

Not sure how you got the camera set the way it was but you should be able to see the model now.

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Odd. I never touched the camera. If this happens again, how would I find whatever you did to repair it?

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I can’t identify what was done to make it happen. I used a plugin called SW Rescue my Model to reset the camera.

For what it’s worth here are the camera properties in your file as you uploaded it:

Screenshot - 10_19_2023 , 1_41_28 PM
Screenshot - 10_19_2023 , 1_41_28 PM862Ă—567 21.8 KB

And in the “fixed” version.

Screenshot - 10_19_2023 , 1_41_59 PM
Screenshot - 10_19_2023 , 1_41_59 PM833Ă—538 16 KB

The Eye coordinates represent the location of the camera. In your model the camera is placed a long way from the model. Again, I don’t know what in your work flow positioned it there. I’ve seen this in a few other models from other users although I’ve never been able to induce it in any of my own models.

If I remember correctly the units are inches. If that’s right, the distance to the camera from the origin is 830,636,684,286,963,328 miles or about 8935823470 AU or 141298 light years.

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