Hi Michael,

I had a bit of a think about this and I think I've worked out how people visualize the 2 styles.
When you talk about the first style you are talking about moving the whole view around with the model the
second style of manipulation is visualized as if the view is fixed and the model is rotated around in that fixed view
and it is the axis icon that gives you your orientation (stability) of you work so you know where you are.

Does this make sense or is this just my brain ?

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