Great handle. It's like we made a movie about some bad Dutch weed that gave people weird Zombified behaviour [already almost true anyways]. "Night of the Amsterdamned."
1: Make sure that you do not have a Cutting Plane active that hides your model.
2: Try
selecting everything in plan, then Zoom "Fit in Window".
3: Use the camera tool [toolbar - camera icon] to aim at your subject. Place a camera in the plan view.
Dwight Atkinson