Just noticed something strange in the latest SketchUp 25.0.660. The views change orientation aligned to the rotation of the group you just opened (edit group). See pic and SketchUp file. The left group is not rotated, the right one is rotated 90 degrees change your view to Front using the views …

Thanks for your effort. I was already making my own plugin to do the same (without AI).

the views simply align to the axis of the current context when you take a group and rotate it, the axis inside the group rotate with the rest. the general axis of your model haven’t changed. but once you enter the group, you’re now working with its own axis. and the views will adapt [ima…

This IMHO is correct behaviour. My current project has part of the building on one axis and the other twisted. I find the current behaviour helps so I can orientate the camera to the current axis which can then be included with Scenes for placing rotated plan views in Layout.

[image] DGSketcher: This IMHO is correct behaviour. My current project has part of the building on one axis and the other twisted. I find the current behaviour helps so I can orientate the camera to the current axis which can then be included with Scenes for placing rotated plan views in Layout. …

IMHO this is nightmare behavior. The model axis is my main reference point in choosing which view I need. Groups are moved and rotated all over the model so now its hit and miss trying to guess which view I must select when editing a group. If you mouse-over an icon, in the bottom-left of the scree…

Good find but I didn’t change the axis of my world. If I did, this change would make sense. I did just rotate a group (and that rotated the axis of the group). Very strange I didn’t notice this behavior before…

Editing a rotated steel beam and switching to right-view… Not funny this new behavior… [250721_viewport orientation 2]

hello, I prefer the new behaviour. as a workaround you can still set scenes with standard views based on your world axis and click on them while editing a group. [left right] you can also explode and regroup so that the group matches the world origin. don’t if you work with components

I appreciate your suggestions but these have a few the downsides for me; Extra wasted extra space in the scene bar just for for being able to use the standard views like before. I guess I have to do some ruby coding to make a new view toolbar that works like before. After exploding, you have to ma…

WorldViewTools.rbz (4.5 KB) I quickly created a toolbar using AI. Icons could be better-looking, but I can’t spend more time on it :sweat_smile: install through the extension manager I tested it and it works, I made it auto zoom extends on the edited group/component and respect the current select…

as you wish, If you have the knowledge to do so, even better !

View orientation changes with the rotation of the opened group (edit group)

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View orientation changes with the rotation of the opened group (edit group)

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