"Jumpy" response to mouse clicks

[SomeDay]

Hello,

This has not happened to me before.
I've created a model of my home's roof truss and turned that into a component.
At times, if I click near the component (I might be orbiting at the time too), the component is immediately launched far-far away. I then spend 5 minutes or more just trying to find it. I zoom repeatedly until the component comes back into visual scope.

What is the combination of things (click, orbit, type of component, ???) that is causing these startling jumps?
Do you have any tips for quickly finding my component after it, apparently, is launched into hyper-space?

Thanks in advance.

[Gaieus]

It may be your mouse. I have had this, too. When you double click with the middle mouse button, it is actually a sort of mouse shortcut to quickly zoom into (center the view at) what you are double clicking. Now when my mouse got broken, it sometimes double clicked automatically which drove me crazy. If you double click into empty space (even "seemingly" near your component), you may be taken far away.

Check if another mouse does the same.