To Work with View Orientations

Use the ViewCube to reorient the current view of a model.

Front View

You use the Front view of a model along with its Up direction to specify the direction of the faces of the ViewCube.

  • To define the front view, click the ViewCube menu Set Current View to Front.
  • To reorient the view to a preset orientation, click one of the faces, edges or corners on the ViewCube.
  • To view an adjacent face, click one of the triangles near the edges of the ViewCube.

Orient Interactively

  • Click and drag in the direction you want to orbit the model.

Roll a Face View

  • With a face displayed, click one of the roll arrows over and to the right of the ViewCube.
  • The left roll arrow rotates the view 90 degrees counterclockwise. The right roll arrow rotates the view 90 degrees clockwise.

Home View

The Home view is a special view stored with a model that makes it easy to return to a known or familiar view. You can designate any view as Home.
  • To define a view as Home, click ViewCube menu > Set Current View as Home.
  • To return to the Home view, click the Home button near the ViewCube.