Hi Rudl - I'm sorry I don't quite understand what you mean here.

Are you talking about panning the view using the middle mouse button? That works in either a 2D view or the 3D view.

Or are you talking about rotating the 2D view so that it no longer becomes 2D ? That would tend to cause problems because then the button labeled "Top" would no longer actually go to a top view, if you could rotate the top view to some other angle it would basically make that button telling a lie.. If you want to rotate to some arbitrary angle then that's what the 3D view is for.

It is possible to set up some shortcuts so that you could stay inside the 3D view at all times but push a key to align the 3D view to the top, front, or right directions - let me know if you are interested in that.

- Michael