I suspect that the camera is currently located some distance away and just zooming rather than moving around the design (if that's the case, it'd have to be changed or taken into account for this to work).
It'd be great to have the ability to autoslice at the viewplane (or slightly in front of it at the user's option) so we can navigate and view the internals of completely or partially closed designs without having to constantly and manually add section-analysys.
Closely related but I'm unable to set a pivot point with shift+ anything using my trackpad (note this is not a new issue but it's another annoying one).