# Student zoomed in too far and can not find project HELP

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**Category:** SketchUp for Schools\
**Tags:** sketchup\
**Created:** [April 15, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/student-zoomed-in-too-far-and-can-not-find-project-help/160893 "2021-04-15T22:10:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![jvonspreckelsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@jvonspreckelsen](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/jvonspreckelsen)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/student-zoomed-in-too-far-and-can-not-find-project-help/160893/1 "2021-04-15T22:10:49Z")

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This week I had a student zoom WAY too far into their project and can no longer view his model. We tried the Zoom tools, but cannot get the zoom to reset. Is anyone willing to take a look and see if you can get it figured out? Here is a link to the .skp file. Thanks.

> **[jack kitchen lost HELP.skp](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p0uEmNEooC09xIVrB_NuSB6JblpD5MIr/view?usp=sharing)**
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> Google Drive file.

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**Author:** ![DaveR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/daver/32/7601_2.png) [@DaveR](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DaveR)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/student-zoomed-in-too-far-and-can-not-find-project-help/160893/2 "2021-04-15T22:23:09Z")

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There are a bunch of In Model components but there’s nothing but a rectangle and a couple of guidelines in the model space.

 ![Screenshot - 4_15_2021 , 5_21_14 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/b/3/b39ff843ee8a192e4557f4377efa7252bdc76ee9.png)

[jack kitchen lost HELP.skp](https://forums.sketchup.com/uploads/short-url/75nWZBPM8EWHOy7CWG9HceGzmJc.skp) (6.4 MB)

Suggest to the student that they should be working with the camera set to Perspective, not Parallel Projection. That will help prevent this camera placement problem. Use the option indicated here.  
 ![Screenshot - 4_15_2021 , 5_23_34 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/f/5/f5b19dd63c4246bd88f16c44c002cfb9473fc997.png)

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**Author:** ![jvonspreckelsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@jvonspreckelsen](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/jvonspreckelsen)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/student-zoomed-in-too-far-and-can-not-find-project-help/160893/3 "2021-04-15T22:40:57Z")

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Oh man. There was an entire model of a kitchen? Thank you for your help.

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**Author:** ![TIG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/tig/32/198_2.png) [@TIG](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/TIG)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/student-zoomed-in-too-far-and-can-not-find-project-help/160893/4 "2021-04-15T22:50:44Z")

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The model is empty except for a flat face 100’ square - and a few superfluous guidelines.  
It’s not easily zoom-able so the thing looks FUBAR…  
There are lots of unused things, deleted using Model Info \> Purge Unused…

Looks like most things are lost ☹

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**Author:** ![jvonspreckelsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@jvonspreckelsen](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/jvonspreckelsen)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/student-zoomed-in-too-far-and-can-not-find-project-help/160893/5 "2021-04-19T17:10:14Z")

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Bummer. Thanks for taking time to look at it.