Using Orbit "opens the model" not zoom the object

[wiper]

Hello All, I am "at the end" and kindly asking for your support.

Since this is my first project pleas forgive me my maybe "novice" question ...

The Problem:
When I Orbit into the model usually it goes into detail by zooming and i will see everything "closer".
New behaviour is: It OPENS the model and there is no chance for me to edit anything or even to see the detail.

What have i done wrong?
Maybe a keycode that I've entered that changes to this behavior?
How can I change this back to normal?

See this short Video that shows my problem.

Also I have added these two images to show what I am trying to explain.

View1:

View2 using "Orbit":

Thank you very much for your assistance!
Sorry if it is already mentioned in the forum - my english is not good enough to find the right words to that issue.

Greetings wiper

[Gaieus]

Hi Wiper,

That is a classic "Clipping" effect. See if any of the solutions help here:
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=36261

If not, could you somehow share that file? If not too big, can attach here, if bigger, via the 3D Warehouse...

[wiper]

Thank you very much for your support!
I appreciate your fast response.

My Problem was that I added a very big cylinder around my model to simulate "heaven and ground".
I did not figure any other solution for that due to my lack of knowledge ...

So, after removal of this object - everything went back to "fine" again.

Issue - SOLVED...

If there is any hint how to change the "template" or add "Heaven" to my model - thank you in advance

What a thrill to use this software... and a very cool Board by the way!

Greetz and many thanks
wiper

[Gaieus]

You can use background watermark images for sky for instance. Sure it would be cool to have real spherical backgrounds but I think we'll have to wait for those...

[Alan Fraser]

If you still want Heaven, you can use a sky dome. I posted one on this thread.
It's big...but not big enough to cause the clipping. Normally, you'd only introduce it at the end...for rendering purposes. It just gets in the way, otherwise.