Hi Mark, and now that I read your message again, it kind of sounds like you may be talking about rotating the view around, rather than transforming your objects to a new location with the Transform commands like I was thinking.

By default the view rotation is set to pivot around the z axis, always keeping the direction pointing upwards.

But there are other options that you can set for the view rotation behavior, under Options > View > Rotate / Pan / Zoom options:






Try setting "Rotation Style: Free rotation" and see if that behaves more how you want. That does not restrict the "up" direction like the default mode does.

- Michael