# Rotate 3D Views from dynamo

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/rotate-3d-views-from-dynamo/12326>\
**Category:** Revit\
**Tags:** revit, dynamo\
**Created:** [June 7, 2017, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/rotate-3d-views-from-dynamo/12326 "2017-06-07T09:55:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlbertoCastellanos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@AlbertoCastellanos](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/AlbertoCastellanos)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/rotate-3d-views-from-dynamo/12326/1 "2017-06-07T09:55:38Z")

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Hi All,

I’ve been trying to find a way of modifying the orientation of a 3D view from Dynamo but couldn’t how.

is there a way to access that command from dynamo?

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![jacob.small](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/jacob.small/32/161030_2.png) [@jacob.small](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jacob.small)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/rotate-3d-views-from-dynamo/12326/2 "2017-06-08T01:22:47Z")

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Perspective or isometric?

This is a node for creating and setting a perspective:

> **[Make Perspective 3D View at Element Location](https://dynamonodes.com/2016/01/22/make-perspective-3d-view-at-element-location/)**
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> This node will take an element, get its location, place a Camera view at that location and use two given Parameters from the element in the resulting View Name. It will also use the Element Id in t…

And this post contains some python code for the isometric:

[http://dynamobim.org/forums/topic/view-orientation-and-python-script-refresh/](http://dynamobim.org/forums/topic/view-orientation-and-python-script-refresh/)

I believe that Python code could be modified with some of the info here to make the tool you are after:

> **[Setting up your ViewOrientation3D](https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2013/04/setting-up-your-vieworientation3d.html)**
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> Here is a contribution from Mario Guttman of CASE, who already made various contributions here in the past. He says: I have been purging my 2013 code of deprecated functions in preparation for my 2014 upgrade. One group of statements I have needed to...

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Dieckmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/andreas_dieckmann/32/365_2.png) [@Andreas\_Dieckmann](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Andreas_Dieckmann)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/rotate-3d-views-from-dynamo/12326/3 "2017-06-08T07:14:06Z")

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For perspective views, there’s also a Clockwork node called PerspectiveView.OrientToEyeAndTargetPosition.